We were two and had but one heart between us.
Francois de Montcorbier Villon
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We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON (Stan) had come east and we met at a spaghetti restaurant on 42nd Street and we were so poor we had ...
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie La...
JACQUES BARZUN I know all except myself.
FRANCOIS VILLON But where are the snows of yester year?
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]
FRANCOIS VILLON But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON Good talkers are only found in Paris.
FRANCOIS VILLON Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies, happy is he who knows them not
FRANCOIS VILLON I know everything except myself
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON I had a dream about you. You looked like you, but you also looked like a mannequin. And I looked lik...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO We were told the children would cherish even one or two crayons to draw with. We had church members ...
KAY SCRUGGS Sure, we were the underdogs, but we wanted that game. We had the heart, and we had the commitment.
KAITLYN MARCH Was actually horrible because they had dead bodies and everything else in walkways and stuff. They p...
BARBARA TAYLOR We had one heart attack patient last year and two the year before. Anything can happen any day.
JACQUE PHILLIPS Francois is one of the best in his field.
HANS STURM We were flat emotionally and flat mentally today. Thankfully we had two great guards to bail us out.
BRAD UNDERWOOD Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it
had only one heart; grief, two tear-...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS We had one girl injured, one girl sick and two other girls out and that really hurt us.
HEATH GIBSON Had we continued with the litigation, it would have taken us somewhere between two and four years to...
DOUG SUTHERLAND My parents stood still. It was like we were on two separate islands. Mom and Dad were on one, and I ...
JENELLE JACK PIERRE But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest
concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS They controlled the boards on us. They would get two or three shots and we were only getting one sho...
JAY RANSOM Two hearts can never conjoined to make one but,two souls if they were ment were alredy together at o...
HAYLEE D'ANN RICE What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
VICTOR HUGO We were in most all those (losses), but then had one bad inning that really cost us.
TY GOODMAN Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. ...
DAVID BAKER Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK Hubbard had a great day. He had two real big two-out hits for us in the first and second game that w...
DALE HARPENAU The lack of second-chance opportunities hurt us. We were getting one shot and they were getting two....
DALLAS RICHARDSON We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.
CORMAC MCCARTHY While we were trying to calm the situation, we got word that two friends -- one Protestant and one a...
GERRY KELLY We found two limes and split them between the six of us. Yum.
BILL SATURNO We weren't too fatigued and we had a second wind, but we had the heart to keep driving and keep play...
BRIAN STAMPER The representatives from the St. Vincent de Paul Society called us and asked if we would like to hav...
LOIS JACKSON That's what hurt us in the three losses we have, because all three of them were by one run. Early in...
DAN BOWLING We're pleasantly surprised. Not because we didn't think we were good enough, but because we've had s...
JEFF WREDE Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab...
G.K. CHESTERTON Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
FRANZ JOSEPH VON MUNCHBELLINGHAUSEN We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.
OSAMA BIN LADEN There were a lot of really, really close matches. It was a battle between two pretty evenly-matched ...
DAVID LIPE They play with each other pretty well. The press has bothered us all year, and we were able to capit...
HARRY MASCH We were really blind-sided by this one. It was heart-breaking for us once we realized what was happe...
BARB PREUSS We had no communication whatsoever. We were trying but no words were coming one. Our stats were grea...
JENNIFER CONNOLLY I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
VICTOR BORGE I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't
VICTOR BORGE We have three sets of identical boys, one set of identical girls and two sets of fraternal twins. We...
HOLLY DAVIS We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very co...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Lucian...
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we ...
LYNN FONTANNE I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.
SARAH WATERS So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the ...
HOWARD CARTER It was a nice break between two tough meets. We were kind of on cruise control this week, but we wer...
HOLLY HATTON We made a run at them, but we were one or two possessions short.
PAT RILEY People were complaining like crazy, saying nobody was working, but we had one man on top and one dow...
DAVE WHITE When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but ...
BILL ENGVALL I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season w...
GEORGE BENTHAM Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see mo...
SOCRATES Roaring Fork played tough and had a lot more heart than we did. We had too many patches [of inconsis...
CHRIS WOODS We played very poorly last week but we got some breaks. We were not pleased and the kids know we wer...
RANDALL BACKUS I like to believe that I believe, and yet, I think I know the truth of the matter.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE The two of us were everything that we needed to be to one another as we sat behind those strings.
COURTNEY GIARDINA At one point, we had a father and two sons on a porch, and they were having a barbecue, and they tol...
JOSEPH DEFILLIPO At one point, we were told by Fire and Rescue that we had about two minutes or this gentleman was go...
JEFF MORGAN In principle, we could be testing people, but it is premature to do that at the moment. There were n...
ANDREW STEPTOE Previous to today, we had an attack issue, just putting the ball away shooting-wise. But [Saturday],...
LAUREN BRYAN We do understand and appreciate the underpinnings of the US' de-hyphenated policy in South Asia, but...
JEHANGIR KARAMAT We knew they were going to line up in 12 personnel (one back, two tight ends) and run their inside z...
BRET BIELEMA Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it ...
DENNIS BERGKAMP At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,
KLAUS AUGENTHALER And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, whic...
BIBLE It was like a dual meet between us and East and I thought we were going to come out on top, but they...
JOSH KRATOVIL We finished first in the league, but we beat two teams in the tournament that have had the upper han...
PAUL KELLY Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he w...
VICTOR HUGO I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
VICTOR BORGE We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of refere...
MARCEL PROUST Robert runs so hard and that fumble liked to tore his heart out. That type of thing is what has been...
DAN DAVIS The difference between the two games for us was that the first game was early in the season and we h...
TONY MARTIN Why must we socialize, if we seek independence?
For we achieve such through others
And yet if we ret...
XAVIER CLIFF It would have been nice to win this one, but Hastings had a nice team. There were no easy points out...
TOM SANVIK We were able to use the facility and had two instructors.
JACKIE DORWIN Both teams were patient on offense, but we definitely stressed at halftime that we had to pick up ou...
ROCKY PETERSON Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new son...
GEORGE HARRISON We had that one quarter where we were off. I thought we played pretty well, but we couldn't get rebo...
BRITTANY WILLIAMS It showed a lot of character and heart on our team. We had some chances early and were unlucky, but ...
CHAD BEADELL It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The mora...
PETER FONDA When we were through, one of us thought we knew where we were. We cut up through a pine thicket, thi...
TYLER PARKER Two years ago we were evil hackers. One year ago, depending on who quoted us, we were a mix of hacke...
BRIAN MARTIN We were ahead 9-4 at the end of one quarter and at the half it was 27-10. We had three threes in the...
BILLY WALLER There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to...
G.K. CHESTERTON I just had this feeling we were going to win it. We just had more heart.
LAUREN DUSIN
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I know all except myself.
FRANCOIS VILLON But where are the snows of yester year?
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]
FRANCOIS VILLON But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON Good talkers are only found in Paris.
FRANCOIS VILLON Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies, happy is he who knows them not
FRANCOIS VILLON I know everything except myself
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
FRANCOIS DE FENELON Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 We must not be unjust and req...
FRANCOIS DE SALES Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in consi...
FRANCOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Be patient, not only with res...
FRANCOIS DE SALES Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controv...
FRANCOIS DE SALES Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
FRANCOIS DE FENELON Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those ...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
FRANCOIS DE FENELON Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie...
FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.
FRANCOIS One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fortune and humor govern the world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a grea...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in convers...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the geniu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in genera...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have ha...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have suffic...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope and fear are inseparable.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourse...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small intere...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguish...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, ye...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans...
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