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| Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding. | | Uncategorized | |
| Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his head | | Uncategorized | |
| Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken, there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. | | Uncategorized | |
| Falsely honest men are those who disguise their faults both to themselves and others; truly honest men are those who know them perfectly and confess them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them | | Praise; Wisdom | |
| Few persons on the first approach of age do not show wherein their body, or their mind, is beginning to fail. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success | | Success | |
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| Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation | | Flattery | |
| Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. | | Flattery | |
| Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. | | Flattery | |
| For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. | | Uncategorized | |
| For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done no good. | | Uncategorized | |
| Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does objects. | | Uncategorized | |
