Francois Alexandre Frederic Duc De La Rochefoucauld Liancourt Inspirational Quotes (7)

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.