François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window."
Proverb &bull Poverty

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."
John Ruskin &bull Individuality

"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."
Mark Twain &bull Alcoholism

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca &bull Grief

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
Jean Jacques Rousseau &bull Children

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(1613-1680) French writer.

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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