La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Quotations

La Rochefoucauld Quotes

» We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

» Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

» There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

» We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

» Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

» To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

» When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

» Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

» True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

» We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

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