“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
François de La Rochefoucauld“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld”
Gabriela Popa“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“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld