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| François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680). Moral Maxims and Reflections. 1912. |
| Maxims, by Monsieur De la Rochefoucault |
| Part V |
DCCXXXVIII A Great many People give themselves up to Devotion, but no body gives himself up to Humility. | 738 |
DCCXXXIX Bodily Labour keeps off Pain of Mind; and by so doing makes the Poor happy. | 739 |
DCCXL The Mortifications which no body knows of, are Mortifications indeed, the rest are made easie by our Vanity. | 740 |
DCCXLI The Altar on which God would have all our Sacrifices offered, is Humility. | 741 |
DCCXLII A few Things suffice to make a wise Man happy, but it is not in the Power of any to content a Fool; and this is the true Reason why much the greatest Part of Mankind are miserable. | 742 |
DCCXLIII We give our selves more Pain, to make Men think us happy, than to make our selves really so. | 743 |
DCCXLIV It is much easier to quench a first Desire, than to satisfie all those that are sure to follow after. | 744 |
DCCXLV Wisdom to the Mind, is as Health to the Body. | 745 |
DCCXLVI In regard neither Health of Body, nor Peace of Mind, can be conferr’d by the Greatest Men upon Earth; the utmost Favours they can do us are bought too dear. | 746 |
DCCXLVII Before we set our Hearts too much upon any Thing, let us examine how happy those are, who already possess it. | 747 |
DCCXLVIII The greatest Treasure in this World, is a true Friend, and yet it is a Treasure which Men least trouble themselves to look after. | 748 |
DCCXLIX Lovers are blind to the Failings of their Mistresses, till the ending of the Charm open their Eyes. | 749 |
DCCL Prudence and Love were never made for one another; as much as you add to the one, you certainly take from the other. | 750 |
DCCLI A jealous Wife gives her Husband this satisfaction at least, that he is sure, from her, continually to hear of what he loves. | 751 |
DCCLII How sad a Case is that poor Woman in, who is at the same Time violently in Love, and inflexibly vertuous? | 752 |
DCCLIII A wise Man finds it more for his Advantage, to decline the Combat, than to gain the Conquest. | 753 |
DCCLIV There is more need of reading Men than Books. | 754 |
DCCLV Good and ill Fortune commonly go to them, who had most of each before. | 755 |
DCCLVI A good Wife is a hid Treasure, which he that hath found, does well not to brag of. | 756 |
DCCLVII Most Women mourn the Loss of a Lover, not so much to shew how they loved before, as to gain the Reputation of deserving to be loved again. | 757 |
DCCLVIII Faithfulness, when the Effect of Constraint, is very little better than Unfaithfulness. | 758 |
DCCLIX No Women are worth our Jealousie, but such as decline giving occasion for it. | 759 |
DCCLX Men that are too fond, do not easily discern, when their Passion ceases to be return’d. | 760 |
DCCLXI We seldom allow any Men to have good Sense, who are not of our own Opinion. | 761 |
DCCLXII Men find fault with themselves, purely to put others upon commending them. | 762 |
DCCLXIII Little Souls take offence at the least Things. | 763 |
DCCLXIV There are some Defects, which when placed in a convenient Light, look more agreeably than even Perfection it self. | 764 |
DCCLXV We always think them troublesome, that our selves are troublesome to. | 765 |
DCCLXVI A Man never finds it harder to speak as he ought, than when out of Countenance not to find something to say. | 766 |
DCCLXVII No Faults are unpardonable in those who can prevail with themselves to acknowledge them. | 767 |
DCCLXVIII Nothing is more natural to us, or imposes more upon us, than the Perswasion that we are beloved. | 768 |
DCCLXIX We take more delight in seeing the Persons that have been beholden to us, than them to whom we are beholden. | 769 |
DCCLXX There is more difficulty in concealing our real Sentiments, than in counterfeiting the Sentiments we have not. | 770 |
DCCLXXI Friendships, after Reconciliation, are more nice to be kept, than those that were never broken at all. | 771 |
DCCLXXII He that likes no body, hath a much worse Time of it, than he whom no body likes. | 772 |
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