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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Names, Fancy

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Two, Looks
Maxims 623

Great men should not have great faults.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Greatness, Men, Faults

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom, Wealth, Mercy

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Running, Long, Degrees

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Falling In Love, Fall, Men

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Doe, Blind, Fortune

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, People, Able

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Discovery, Self, Land

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lying, Future, Men

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life, Courage, Memorial Day
"Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Retirement, Thinking, Mind

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Inspirational, Wise, Growing

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Two, Perfect, Cowardice

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Design, Honor

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Age, Levity

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beauty, Women, Dresses

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness, Humor, Men

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women, Bored, Virtuous Woman

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Inspirational, Character, Weakness

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Treasure, Safe, Virtuous Woman

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Contempt

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flirty, Flirting, Coquette
"Maxims" by François de La Rochefoucauld, (No. 342), 1665-1678.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Vanity, Brave

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