Tag: Quote of the Day

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

The stamp of great minds is to suggest much in few words; by contrast, little minds have the gift of talking a great deal and saying nothing.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The mind is always the dupe of the heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one’s skill.

François de La Rochefoucauld