780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld föddes den September 15th 1613 och dog den 17 March 1680 - French writer
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 Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear |
| Love, though so very agreeable, pleases more by its ways than by itself. |
| Lovers are never tired of each other,—they always speak of themselves. |
| Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. |
| Luck and temper rule the world. |
| Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. |
| Magnanimity despises all, to win all. |
| Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise. |
| Man's joy or sorrow depends as much upon his disposition as upon his fate |
| Man's merit, like the crops, has its season. |
| Many people despise, but few know how to bestow wealth. |
| Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. |
| Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance. |
| Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. |
| Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. |
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