11 Quotes by La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

People offer advice, but they do not give at the same time the wisdom to benefit from it.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather thanmeans, that men fail of success.

Jesteśmy tak przyzwyczajeni grać komedię wobec drugich, iż w końcu gramy komedię wobec samych siebie.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben".