#François de La Rochefoucauld

[philosophybits]

Nearly all of our faults are more forgivable than the means we use to hide them.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[thoughtkick]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[quotefeeling]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfectquote]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfectfeelings]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfeqt]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[derangedrhythms]

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.

François de La Rochefoucauld, from ‘Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims’, tr. J.W. Willis Bund & J. Hain Friswell

[majestativa]

The luminous cropping up of the invisible, the elegant if eerie symmetry of coincidence, could not be “proven” systematically. The fact of love cannot be explained, and the luminosity of art cannot be systematized either. The fact of their existence imposes itself upon the receptive mind; where there is no receptivity, they in effect cease to exist. Behind La Rochefoucauld’s little gem of cynicism, “There are people who would never have loved had they never heard of love,” lies the truth that the belief fathers the capacity.

— PAUL WALDO SCHWARTZ ⚜️ Art and the Occult, (1975)

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1288- No hay disfraz que pueda largo tiempo ocultar el amor donde lo hay, ni fingirlo donde no lo hay.

("Rochefoucauld")

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Dans leur première passion, les femmes aiment leurs amants, dans toutes les autres, elles aiment l'amour.

- François de La Rochefoucauld

[ma-pi-ma]

La felicità sta nel gusto e non

nelle cose; si è felici perché si ha

ciò che ci piace, e non perché si ha

ciò che gli altri trovano piacevole.

François de La Rochefoucauld

[philosophybits]

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[thoughtkick]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[monologhidiunamarea]

L’attesa attenua le passioni mediocri e aumenta quelle più grandi.

[thehopefulquotes]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[canesenzafissadimora]

Poniamo più attenzione nel far credere agli altri di essere felici che non cercare di esserlo veramente.