Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
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
Love
Number
Numbers
Name
Attributed
Names
Dealings
Greater
Venice
Part
Borrowed
Done
Affairs
Great
Affair
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
