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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 The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. |
| The reason which often prevents us abandoning a single vice is having so many. |
| The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this: they are always talking of themselves |
| The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversations is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak |
| The same firmness that enables us to resist love enables us to make our resistance durable and lasting. So weak persons who are always excited by passions are seldom really possessed of any. |
| The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not. |
| The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted |
| The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love. |
| The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. |
| The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity. |
| The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. |
| The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others |
| The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it. |
| The usual education of young people is to inspire them with a second self-love. |
| The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly |
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