François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
Romance Quotes
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
Love Quotes
“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”
Courage Quotes
“Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.”
Cunning Quotes
“True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.”
Eloquence Quotes
“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
Hope Quotes
“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”
Humility Quotes
“Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
Jealousy Quotes
“The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.”
Merit Quotes
“We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.”
Motives Quotes
“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
Vanity Quotes
“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
Vanity Quotes