“ nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. ”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665). copy citation
| Author | François de La Rochefoucauld |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims |
| Topic | |
| Date | 1665 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by J. W. Willis Bund |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm |
Context
“are those which are not known, vanity renders the others easy enough.
LXXIX.—Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer him his sacrifices.
LXXX.—Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
LXXXI.—We trouble ourselves less to become happy, than to make others believe we are so.
LXXXII.—It is more easy to extinguish the first desire than to satisfy those which follow.
LXXXIII.—Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.”
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