Tag: François de La Rochefoucauld

Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples.

François de La Rochefoucauld

As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.

François de La Rochefoucauld

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

François de La Rochefoucauld