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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 He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. |
| He is really wise who is nettled at nothing. |
| He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken |
| He who lives without folly is not so wise as he believes |
| He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content with him deceives himself yet more. |
| Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. |
| Hope and fear are inseparable. |
| Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. |
| Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. |
| Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route |
| How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. |
| However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive |
| However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. |
| However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious, or impute crimes to it |
| However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others |
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