“Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.” WisdomLyingMercyFortunePossession Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.” HappinessPowerMiserySensationsExcess Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.” PeopleThinkingMenDoeHappinessDesireEnjoyTasteLovelyDesirableRelish Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.” MenDoeHumorHappinessDependsMiseryFortune Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.” MenCertainChanceCourageVirtueActivityAmbitionBraveVariousPurityChastityChasteAssemblage Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.” IfsLoveHateKindnessEffectsProduceJudgingHatredLove Hate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“As long as we love, we can forgive.” LoveLongForgivenessForgiving Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.” SelfFriendshipJudgingDependsSelf LoveDelightProportionDeserving Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.” LoveFriendshipFriendsEnvyTrue FriendTrue Friendship Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.” FriendshipGraceFriendsHabitOppositesAgreeFaultsLengthDiscoveringNovelty Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld