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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 Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them |
| Few persons on the first approach of age do not show wherein their body, or their mind, is beginning to fail. |
| Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. |
| Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success |
| Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong |
| Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation |
| Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. |
| Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. |
| For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. |
| For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. |
| Fortune and humor govern the world. |
| Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done no good. |
| Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does objects. |
| Fortune sometimes uses our faults to exalt us, and there are tiresome people whose deserts would be ill rewarded if we did not desire to purchase their absence. |
| Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles. |
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