Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

#1. What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#2. The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!

Andre Gide

#3. More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#4. Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#5. However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#6. Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#7. The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#8. Because that's what life's about. It's about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on.

Kandi Steiner

#9. Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#10. The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#11. Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#12. Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

Deepak Chopra

#13. When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Swizz Beatz

#14. During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.

Billy Graham

#15. When we throw ourselves off the power seat and allow Jesus to fill our soul, heart and mind - our whole life - with His leadership, the troubling, painful and fearful circumstances of our life lose their power over us.

Lynn Donovan

#16. The most trying fools are the bright ones.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#17. Thin rays of orange creep up Tower Bridge and I realize I have never seen the sunrise from here. I had no idea that it could rise, almost perfectly, between the two towers of the bridge. This new light is a new day, and Timothy Squire and I watch it together.

John Owen Theobald

#18. Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life.

Sigmund Freud

#19. We are striving to tell you something impactful and true. When attempting to make good on that promise, no detail is too small.

Ed Catmull

#20. The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#21. Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt