The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
François de La RochefoucauldOne cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: life courage danger cynical
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
François de La RochefoucauldIt is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: wisdom
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: ugly-truths
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: philosophy reflections moral maxims
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: love
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: faults
All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
François de La RochefoucauldWhen not prompted by vanity, we say little.
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