A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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