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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.


Note 

Note



Maxim 70


Source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wikisource - Œuvres de La Rochefoucauld (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian)



French
Il n’y a point de déguisement qui puisse longtemps cacher l’amour où il est, ni le feindre où il n’est pas.

German
Es gibt keine Verstellung, welche die Liebe, wo sie ist, verbergen, oder sie heucheln könnte, wo sie nicht ist.

Italian
Non c'è travestimento che possa nascondere a lungo l'amore dov'è, né fingerlo dove non è.




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: to hide


Quotes

Quotes for: to hide


Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





Hide your life and spread your spirit.





There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.





Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Nature is wont to hide herself.











Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Few people know how to be old.





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.





If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.












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