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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Inspirational

All Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes Affection Age Ambition Appearance Appreciation Art Beauty Being Yourself Birth Blame Boredom Bravery Business Change Character Cheating Choices Confidence Courage Crime Criticism Death Deception Design Desire Determination Difficulty Doubt Envy Ethics Evil Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Falling In Love Fate Fear Feelings Felicity Flattery Flirting Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Generosity Genius Giving Glory Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Happiness Hate Hatred Health Heart Heroism Honor Hope Humility Hypocrisy Idleness Ignorance Imagination Imitation Infidelity Innocence Inspirational quotes Integrity Jealousy Joy Judging Judgment Kindness Knowledge Laziness Life Listening Loss Love Luck Lying Madness Manners Memories Mercy Moderation Motivational Observation Office Opportunity Pain Passion Past Patience Perfection Perspective Philosophy Pleasure Power Praise Prejudice Pride Prudence Quality Reality Regret Reputation Ridicule Risk Security Self Love Selfishness Shame Silence Simplicity Sincerity Sobriety Solitude Soul Strength Study Stupidity Success Suffering Talent Time Trade True Love Trust Truth Understanding Values Violence Virtue War Weakness Wealth Winning Wisdom Wit Work Youth

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Single, Peace

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Art, Educational

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Integrity, Kind Deeds

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Inspirational, Long

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Heart, Mind

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Wisdom, Appreciation

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 132, 1678.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Order, Faults

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, World, Action

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Growth, Self Improvement

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Inspirational, Judging

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Wise, Growing

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Character, Weakness

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Perfect, Would Be

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Sympathy, Soul

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Opportunity, Luck

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Quality, Self Discipline

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Courage, Perfect

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 216, 1665.

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