Skip to main content

We are much mistaken if we th...

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Unfaithfulness ought to extin...

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Even the most disinterested l...

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Love is one and the same in t...

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Moderation is represented as ...

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Fearlessness is a more than o...

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Virtues lose themselves in se...

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

It is oftener by the estimati...

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Affected simplicity is a subt...

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Criticism sometimes is really...

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Praise is a more ingenious, c...

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

We often see malefactors, whe...

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

What we take for high-mindedn...

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

When we seek reconciliation w...

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

There is a sort of love whose...

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Men frequently do good only t...

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Nothing ought in reason to mo...

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Men are inconsolable concerni...

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

The appearances of goodness a...

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

He that fancies such a suffic...

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....