Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Regret

Quotes about: Regret

• 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

  Friends, Regret, Grief

• It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Giving, Secret

• A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Thinking, Lovers

• The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Hate, Envy

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