Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Youth is a continual intoxication it is the fever of reason.
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
Fever
Youth
Reason
Intoxication
Continual
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
