How To Use La Rochefoucauld In A Sentence
- We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard. Puncturing Our Pretensions
- The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game. Puncturing Our Pretensions
- True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
