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“All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Flirty #Flirting #Shyness
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“If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Relationship #Finding Peace #Elsewhere
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“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Men #Good Man #Proof
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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Fitness #Art #Food
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“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Greatness #Achieve #Should
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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Love #Romantic #I Miss You
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“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Self #People #Blind
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“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Inspirational #Wise #Wisdom
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“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Love #True Love #Cheesy Love
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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Love #Kind #Imitation
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“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Work #Height #Able
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“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Life #Courage #Cynical
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“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Workout #Desire #Praise
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“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Jealousy #Spring #Self
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“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Time #Silly #Age
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“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger....”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Courage #Danger #Certain
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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Life #Relationship #Cynical
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“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Hero #Fortune #Generous
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“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Ambition #Order #Generosity
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“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Work #Office #Doe
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“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Inspirational #Single #Peace
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“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Growth #Different #Personal Growth
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“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Men #Thinking #Mistress
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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Love #Friendship #Patience
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“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Life #Wise #Thinking
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“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Love #Admiration #Admire
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“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Wisdom #Saying Nothing #Few Words
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“We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Debt #Pay #Loan
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“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Luck #Faults #Chance
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“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#Law #Decency
