Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Quotations

Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

» The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

» To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

» Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

» Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

» There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

» Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

» The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

» We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

» We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

» Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

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