“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.”

—La Rochefoucauld via

“To eat is a necessity. But to eat intelligently-- is an art.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“As transformações da amizade têm mais ou menos as mesmas causas que as transformações do amor: as suas regras são muito semelhantes. Se um tem mais alegria e prazer, a outra deve ser mais serena e mais severa porque nada perdoa; mas o tempo, que muda o humor e os interesses, destrói-os quase do mesmo modo. Os homens são demasiado fracos e demasiado mutáveis para suportar muito tempo o peso da amizade. A Antiguidade deu-nos os exemplos; mas no tempo em que vivemos, pode afirmar-se que é ainda menos impossível encontrar um amor verdadeiro do que uma verdadeira amizade.”

—François La Rochefoucauld - Reflexões.

“How many people would fall in love if they had not a word for it?”

—La Rochefoucauld

“It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.”

—La Rouchefoucauld

“On n'est jamais si malheureux qu'on croit ni si heureux qu'on avait espéré.”

—Maximes et réflexions, François de La Rochefoucauld

“To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.”

—La Rochefoucauld. Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations by Leonard Levinson, 1971.

“Just as the happiest in the world is the one who is satisfied with few things, the great and the ambitious are the most wretched in that respect -- because they need to accumulate innumerable possessions in order to be happy.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“Les biens et les maux qui nous arrivent ne nous touchent pas selon leur grandeur, mais selon notre sensibilité. ”

—La Rochefoucauld

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.”

—La Rochefoucauld

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.”

—La Rochefoucauld
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