“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“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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