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8984 quotesEveryone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Judgment and Judges
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
Humor
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Funerals
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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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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If 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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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 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 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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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Jealousy
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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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
Selfishness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
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