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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| François, duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| Absence destroys trifling intimacies, but it invigorates strong ones. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 1 |
| We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, and to the air and complexion of the person. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 2 |
| Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 3 |
| The humours of the body have a stated and a regular course, which impels and imperceptibly guides our will. They co-operate with each other, and exercise successively a secret empire within us; so that they have a considerable part in all our actions, without our being able to know it. Hence the necessity of attention to our bodily health. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 4 |
| Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 5 |
| There are more faults in the humour than in the mind. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 6 |
| Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 7 |
| We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 8 |
| Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual movement: so soon as it ceases to hope and fear, it ceases to exist. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 9 |
| Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 10 |
| Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy: we do not easily believe beyond what we see. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 11 |
| Philosophy can hold an easy triumph over the misfortunes which are past and to come; but those which are present triumph over her. By philosophy we are taught to dismiss our regrets for the past and our apprehensions of future evils; but the immediate sense of suffering she cannot teach us to subdue. François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. | 12 |
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