Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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.
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.
french-writer frequently vices virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
constancy cute-love giving heart itself love perpetual preference sweet-love
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
funny-love hatred judge love resembles usual
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
appearance desire natural prevents seem
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
bringing contagious evil example good great
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
advice deceived mistrust shameful
It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
complains judgment-and-judges nobody
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
hatred judge love nearly resembles
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.