Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Every
Contradiction
Invention
Imagination
Nature
Doe
Many
Contradictions
Different
Enable
Heart
Invent
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
