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 love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. |
| We may find means to cure a fool of his folly, but there are none to set straight a cross-grained spirit. |
| We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct |
| We may say vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we travelled the road twice over I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them. |
| We may seem great in a post beneath our capacity, but we oftener seem little in a post above it. |
| We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. |
| We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. |
| We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive. |
| We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending themselves. |
| We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. |
| We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. |
| We often comfort ourselves by the weakness of evils, for which reason has not the strength to console us. |
| We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. |
| We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity |
| We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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