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
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
– 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
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
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld