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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 We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. |
| We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. |
| We give up more easily our interest than our taste. |
| We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not |
| We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. |
| We have few faults which are not far more excusable than the means we adopt to hide them. |
| We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. |
| We have more idleness in the mind than in the body. |
| We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in love. |
| We have not enough strength to follow all our reason. |
| We have not the courage to say generally that we have no faults, and that our enemies have no good qualities; but in fact we are not far from believing so. |
| We keep our first lover for a long time—if we do not get a second. |
| We keep our first lover for a long time—if we do not get a second. |
| We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. |
| We live in a discouraging world full of people who put us down. What bright lights we can be when we say the simple words, 'I have confidence in you!' |
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