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Maxims QUOTES

Maxims QUOTES

1 " Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

2 " One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

3 " Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

4 " Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

5 " A weakling is incapable of sincerity. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

6 " We forgive so long as we love. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

7 " Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

8 " If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

9 " Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

10 " The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

11 " Extreme boredom provides its own antidote. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

12 " Conceit causes more conversation than wit. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

13 " The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

14 " A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

15 " Affected simplicity is refined imposture. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

16 " Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

17 " Of all our passions, that which is most unknown to ourselves is indolence. Although the injuries it causes are very imperceptible, no other passion is more ardent or more malignant. If we consider attentively its influence we shall see that on every occasion it renders itself master of our sentiments, our interests, and our pleasures; it is the remora which arrests the course of the largest vessels, a calm more dangerous to the most important affairs than rocks or tempests. The repose of indolence is a secret spell of the mind which suspends our most ardent pursuits and our firmest resolves. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

18 " Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what
one would do before all the world. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

19 " How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person? "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims

20 " As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. "

― François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims