Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
– François de la Rochefoucauld
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should not judge of a man’s merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person’s heart.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld