Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
cannot contentment seek useless
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
conceal cute-love disguise exists love
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
affairs ashamed few love people sad-love
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
complains judgment-and-judges nobody
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
faithful love remain struggle undergo
The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
failure means people rather
It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
convinces orators passions speakers-and-speaking
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
cleverness conceal great
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
cleverness conceal height
The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
detail good happened last memory recall
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
desire lead sufficient ways
There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
badly egotism ourselves rather speak talk
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.