Si nous résistons à nos passions, c'est plus par leur faiblesse que par notre force.
François de La RochefoucauldOf all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
François de La RochefoucauldThose who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: society
How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: friendship true-love
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
François de La RochefoucauldWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
François de La RochefoucauldOne may outwit another, but not all the others.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: deceit
What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
François de La RochefoucauldIf we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: criticism
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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