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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 Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self love always expects to gain something |
| Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. |
| Gallantry of the mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner |
| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. |
| Good taste arises more from judgment than wit. |
| Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind |
| Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind |
| Gratitude is as the good faith of merchants: it holds commerce together; and we do not pay because it is just to pay debts, but because we shall thereby more easily find people who will lend. |
| Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. |
| Gravity is a trick of the body devised to conceal deficiencies of the mind |
| Great and striking actions which dazzle the eyes are represented by politicians as the effect of great designs, instead of which they are commonly caused by the temper and the passions. Thus the war between Augustus and Anthony, which is set down to the a |
| Great men should not have great faults. |
| Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. |
| Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. |
| Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like. |
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