Status Updates From Rochefoucauld The Maxims

“He is devoid of taste and delicacy, finds everything amusing but enjoys nothing, and skilfully avoids revealing that his knowledge of everything is of the most superficial kind”. has he been reading my diary…

Fools and bores judge others by themselves.

We should often be ashamed of our noblest actions, could the world read our motives.

Whatever disgrace we have deserved, it is almost always within our power to rehabilitate our reputations.

We rarely praise anyone who does not admire us.

Circumstances make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.

The greatest of all Love’s miracles is curing coquetry.

No woman fully fathoms her coquetry.

It is harder to be faithful to a mistress when she is gracious than when she is abusive.

It is a great mistake to believe that only violent passions, such as love and ambition, can make us masters of others. Laziness with all its indolence is often the most absolute sovereign.

Pity is often a perception of our own troubles through the woes of others; it is a clever anticipation of the misfortunes which may befall us.