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François de La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680. French nobleman, author of many popular maxims.

1. "We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope

2. "We pardon to the extent that we love."

categories: Forgiveness

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

categories: Forgiveness

4. "We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Egoism

5. "We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

categories: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Power and Weakness

6. "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

categories: Happiness

7. "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

categories: Egoism -:- Manners and Ethics

8. "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen."

categories: Love

9. "Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones."

categories: Various

10. "There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

11. "The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles flames; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one."

categories: Love -:- Power and Weakness

12. "The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice."

categories: Justice

13. "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits."

categories: Manners and Ethics

14. "Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about."

categories: Envy -:- Marriage

15. "Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Truth and Falsity

16. "Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

categories: Egoism

17. "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Anger

18. "Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."

categories: Good and Evil

19. "Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

categories: Manners and Ethics

20. "Only great men have great faults."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Talent and Genius

21. "One is never so happy or so unhappy as one fancies."

categories: Happiness

22. "Nothing is given so profusely as advice."

categories: Manners and Ethics

23. "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. "

categories: Life and Death

24. "Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

25. "Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it."

categories: Envy

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

categories: Various

27. "It is easier to know men than to know a man."

categories: Human

28. "It is difficult to define love. In the soul it is a passion to rule; in the mind it is sympathy; and in the body it is only a hidden and tactful desire to possess what we love after many mysteries."

categories: Love

29. "It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be."

categories: Happiness

30. "In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love."

categories: Love -:- Woman and Man

31. "In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

categories: Envy -:- Egoism

32. "In all lives, there is a date where destiny forks either towards catastrophe or towards success."

categories: Destiny and Fate

33. "If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship."

categories: Love

34. "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

categories: Manners and Ethics

35. "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Various

36. "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Youth and Age

37. "Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Memory

38. "Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire."

categories: Various


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