VIs:6
We strive less hard to be happy than to make people think we are happy.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
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Social networks first law
The secret of love
I:302
When you love very little, you are sure to be loved.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Being young and natural
V:372
Most young people think they are being natural when they are merely uncivil and uncouth.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Virtuous women
V:367
There are few virtuous women who are not weary of their occupation.
V:368
Most virtuous women are hidden treasures: they are safe only because they are not sought after.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Women's love
V:277
Women often think they are in love though they are not. The business of an intrigue, the excitement produced by a love affair, a natural predilection for the pleasure of being loved, and the difficulty of refusing, convince them that they are being passionate when they are merely being flirtatious.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Clever people
V:208
There are silly people who know themselves and make use of their silliness cleverly.
V:209
The person who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
V:210
As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise.
V:244
Supreme cleverness lies in knowing the exact value of things.
V:245
You are immensely clever if you are able to hide your cleverness.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Constancy in love
V:175
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, which makes our hearts fasten in succession in all the qualities of the person we love, preferring now one, now another - so that such constancy is merely inconstancy contained in and confined to a single object
V:176
There are two kinds of constancy in love. One is due to the fact that we are continually finding new things to love in the person we love; the other is due to the fact that we make it a point of honor to be constant.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
La Rochefoucauld tells the Truth
V:132
It is easier to be wise for other people than for yourself.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Our knowledge is superficial and imperfect
V:106
To know things well, we must know the details; and as they are almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Prudence
V:79
Silence is the safest policy for someone who does not trust himself.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
True love
V:76
True love is like visitations by ghosts: everyone talks about such things, but few people have seen them.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Conditions of love
V:75
Love, like fire, is sustained only by constant motion, and it ceases to exist when it ceases to hope or fear.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Women in love
V:73
It is possible to find women who have never had a love affair; but is rare to find women who have only ever had one.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
V:48
Bliss lies in our taste, not in the things themselves; we are happy when we have what we like, not what other people find atractive.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
There is more pride than kindness
V:37
There is more pride than kindness in our reprimands to people who are at fault; and we reprove them not so much to correct them as to convince them that we ourselves are free from such wrongdoing.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Jealousy vs envy
V:28
Jealousy is, in a way, just and reasonable, because its aim is merely to retain something that belongs to us, or that we think belongs to us; whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure the fact that other people possess anything.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Self love
V:2
Self-love is the greatest flatterer of all.
V:4
Self-love is cleverer than the cleverest man in the world.
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
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