Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor o >>

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind e >>

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. >>

Quotations about Cleverness

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. >>

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write t >>

A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. >>

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De