Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

François de La Rochefoucauld · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• 334.--Women can less easily resign flirtations than love. ¶502
• 335.--In love deceit almost always goes further than mistrust. ¶503
• 336.--There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. ¶504
• 337.--There are certain good qualities as there are senses, and those who want them can neither perceive nor understand them. ¶505
• 338.--When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate. ¶506
• 339.--We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our self-love. ¶507
• 340.--The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. ¶508
• 341.--The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age. ¶510
• 342.--The accent of our native country dwells in the heart and mind as well as on the tongue. ¶511
• 343.--To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune. ¶512
• 344.--Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. ¶513
• 345.--Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. ¶514
• 346.--If a woman's temper is beyond control there can be no control of the mind or heart. ¶515
• 347.--We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ¶516
• 348.--When one loves one doubts even what one most believes. ¶518
• 349.--The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. ¶519
• 350.--Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. ¶520
• 351.--We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in love. ¶522
• 352.--We almost always are bored with persons with whom we should not be bored. ¶523
• 353.--A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. ¶524
• 354.--There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue itself. ¶525
• 355.--Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. ¶526
• 356.--Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us. ¶527
• 357.--Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt. ¶528
• 358.--Humility is the true proof of Christian virtues; without it we retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide them from others, and often from ourselves. ¶529
• 359.--Infidelities should extinguish love, and we ought not to be jealous when we have cause to be so. No persons escape causing jealousy who are worthy of exciting it. ¶530
• 360.--We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by our greatest towards others. ¶531
• 361.--Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ¶532
• 362.--Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved. ¶533
• 363.--The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves. ¶534
• 364.--We well know that it is bad taste to talk of our wives; but we do not so well know that it is the same to speak of ourselves. ¶535
• 365.--There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from Nature, and others which when acquired are never perfect. For example, reason must teach us to manage our estate and our confidence, while Nature should have given us goodness and valour. ¶536
• 366.--However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere with us than with others. ¶537
• 367.--There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part. ¶538
• 368.--The greater number of good women are like concealed treasures, safe as no one has searched for them. ¶540
• 369.--The violences we put upon ourselves to escape love are often more cruel than the cruelty of those we love. ¶541
• 370.--There are not many cowards who know the whole of their fear. ¶542
• 371.--It is generally the fault of the loved one not to perceive when love ceases. ¶543
• 372.--Most young people think they are natural when they are only boorish and rude. ¶544
• 373.--Some tears after having deceived others deceive ourselves. ¶545

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