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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE
Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, an...
WALTER DE LA MARE
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD