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12346 quotesA refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Flirting
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Work
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Decency
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Judgment and Judges
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Grace
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Hope and fear are inseparable.
Hope
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Secrets
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
Health
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
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 is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Love
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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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Jealousy
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