Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

• The only thing constant in life is change

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Motivational, Change

• No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Relationship, Cynical

• One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Cynical

• When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Hate, Hatred

• Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, People, Giving

• He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Wise, Thinking

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 209, 1678.

• Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Character, Enemy

• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

• Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Ideas, Want

• There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Success, Fate

• We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Experience, Novices

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