Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. Francois de La Rochefoucauld More Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld More Quotes From Francois de La Rochefoucauld Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. Francois de La Rochefoucauld witfoolsometimes Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. Francois de La Rochefoucauld healthbodymind Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld temperfortune It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld positive-thinkingexcuseimpossible We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld sometimes Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Francois de La Rochefoucauld secretwiseart Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld fevermindchildren Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. Francois de La Rochefoucauld designmaymen The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. Francois de La Rochefoucauld sometimesmenpeople Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment. Francois de La Rochefoucauld fooltalentsometimes Jealousy is not love, but self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld self-lovejealousyself Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. Francois de La Rochefoucauld pridehumilityorder We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld faultsinspirationalorder We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy. Francois de La Rochefoucauld imitationenvycompetition A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived. Francois de La Rochefoucauld deceptiondeceivingmen Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. Francois de La Rochefoucauld lazinessbodymind Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld ordinary-manordinarymen Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men. Francois de La Rochefoucauld greedbraverymen Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. Francois de La Rochefoucauld advicegivingmen The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld deceptionselfthinking
