Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
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
Consistency
Hearts
Talent
Wise
Heart
Concealing
Agitation
Constancy
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
