Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.