We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas Sowell

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau