Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French - Writer)
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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