Inspirational quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
Those 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.
Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
A weakling is incapable of sincerity.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.
We forgive so long as we love.
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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