Quotes from la rochefoucauld vi

The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Death and the sun can't be looked at steadily.

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world can't do without him is yet more mistaken.

We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.

There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.

Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

The head can't long act the part of the heart.