La Rochefoucauld Quotes
French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.
(1613 - 1680)
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A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
[Fashion]
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
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A man of sense may love like a madman, but not as a fool.
[Love]
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A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
[Understanding]
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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
[Contentment]
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
[Happiness]
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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
[Praise]
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
[Friendship]
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire.
[Absence]
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Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
[Simplicity]
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All who know their own minds, do not know their own hearts.
[Heart]
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An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation, is a sort of ingratitude.
[Ingratitude]
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.
[Conversation]
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As love increases, prudence diminishes.
[Love]
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