10 ideas
| 7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
| 4688 | We imagine small and large objects scaled to the same size, suggesting a fixed capacity for imagination [Lavers] |
| 16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |
| 7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
| 9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |