Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld