Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Quote by FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Accidents Quotes, Life Quotes

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them...

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them...

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey,...

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey,...

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus...

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus...

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do...

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do...

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.