“We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.” Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.” ForgivingFaults Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.” LoveMayHate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” InspirationalOrderBlameFaultsAcknowledgeGreat Ones Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We pardon to the extent that we love.” LoveForgivenessPardonWedding CeremonyPardon MeSmall Acts Of Kindness Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.” SpeakIllEgotism Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.” PersonsRememberHappenedDetailsIrony Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.” VirtueQuietRegardReputationTenderness Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.” WantMeanUseImpossibleDifficultyConquerResolutionApplication Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.” NeedsLostLossOpinionConcern Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” IfsFirstsEndsStatesModernUnderstoodConstantModernismPostmodernismPostmodern Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld