La Rochefoucauld's best maxims
The top 3 according to 47 votes from people: We give nothing so freely as advice. · Some people would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love. · Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.. (Updated Aug 27, 2021.)
The sharpest maxims from the Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665), on self-love, virtue and love.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 14
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We give nothing so freely as advice.
Maxim 110.
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Some people would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love.
Maxim 136.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
Maxim 26.
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He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
Maxim 209.
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Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.
The epigraph of the Maxims.
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We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Maxim 19.
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If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Maxim 31.
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Truth does not do as much good in the world as its appearances do harm.
Maxims.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Maxim 218.
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Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills, but present ills triumph over it.
Maxim 22.
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Maxim 2.
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The constancy of the wise consists in keeping their agitation locked in their hearts.
Maxims.
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One keeps one's first lover a long time, when one doesn't take a second.
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Only great men can have great faults.
Maxim 190.
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