Quote #830
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and...
Category Archives: La Rochefoucauld
Quote #846
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides....
Quote #862
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear...
Quote #831
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit,...
Quote #847
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend...
Quote #863
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others....
Quote #832
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often...
Quote #848
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love...
Quote #864
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love...
Quote #833
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy...