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12663 quotesIf we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Men
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
Moderation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Death and Dying
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
Enemies
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Pride
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Confidence
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
Taste
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Places
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Women
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Fame
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Temper
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun