How To Use La rochefoucauld In A Sentence
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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice; La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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mummeries" in the affair of the dropped letters, 74; her account of the Queen's reception of the news of the abortive attempt to kill Mazarin, 103; her portrait of Madame de Longueville, 135; the principal motive which urged La Rochefoucauld to woo the
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Flaubert, she liked nothing better than to unsaddle human pieties.
A Supremely Disabused Writer
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld