Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Sayings
125 most famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
“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.”
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
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