Quote

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Never
Exist
Number
Numbers
Imagination
Persons
Innately
Person
Contradictions
Different
Invent
Heart
Contradiction

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content that is why most men are miserable.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld