French author
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. – François de La Rochefoucauld
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. – François de La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. – 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. – 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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We never listen when we are eager to speak. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. – François de La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. – 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
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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