The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill success determination vision goal planning

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: silly silliness fun laughter mistakes wisdom seriousness

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Light from Many Lamps
Categories: greed desire want

Behind many acts that many thought ridiculous, there lie many wise and weighty motives.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: actions deeds motivation wisdom foolishness

If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld Words for All Occasions
Categories: criticism gossip

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims, 1665
Categories: ability

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: advice

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maximes (1678)
Categories: agreement

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: fame

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: gratitude

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: health

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: listening

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: memory

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Categories: possessions

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quoted in O Magazine, October 2002
Categories: relaxation