Maxioms by Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising
it.
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising
it.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.
