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8435 quotesIf 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 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 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 great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Cleverness
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 not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Envy
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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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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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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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Valor
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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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 confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
self-esteem
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