Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes And Sayings

However Greatly We Distrust The Sincerity Of Those We Converse With, Yet Still We Think They Tell More Truth To Us Than To Anyone Else.

Fortune Converts Everything To The Advantage Of Her Favorites.

Those That Have Had Great Passions Esteem Themselves For The Rest Of Their Lives Fortunate And Unfortunate In Being Cured Of Them.

We Often Pardon Those That Annoy Us, But We Cannot Pardon Those We Annoy.

We Are Sometimes As Different From Ourselves As We Are From Others.

We Say Little, When Vanity Does Not Make Us Speak.

Some Accidents There Are In Life That A Little Folly Is Necessary To Help Us Out Of.

As Great Minds Have The Faculty Of Saying A Great Deal In A Few Words, So Lesser Minds Have A Talent Of Talking Much, And Saying Nothing.

As Great Minds Have The Faculty Of Saying A Great Deal In A Few Words, So Lesser Minds Have A Talent Of Talking Much, And Saying Nothing.

Jealousy Is Bred In Doubts. When Those Doubts Change Into Certainties, Then The Passion Either Ceases Or Turns Absolute Madness.

Our Concern For The Loss Of Our Friends Is Not Always From A Sense Of Their Worth, But Rather Of Our Own Need Of Them And That We Have Lost Some Who Had A Good Opinion Of Us.

When We Are In Love We Often Doubt That Which We Most Believe.

One Forgives To The Degree That One Loves.

Good Advice Is Something A Man Gives When He Is Too Old To Set A Bad Example.

Old People Love To Give Good Advice; It Compensates Them For Their Inability To Set A Bad Example.

The Intellect Is Always Fooled By The Heart.

Hope, Deceiving As It Is, Serves At Least To Lead Us To The End Of Our Lives By An Agreeable Route.

There Are Bad People Who Would Be Less Dangerous If They Were Quite Devoid Of Goodness.

We Always Love Those Who Admire Us, But We Do Not Always Love Those Whom We Admire.

Why Is It That Our Memory Is Good Enough To Retain The Least Triviality That Happens To Us, And Yet Not Good Enough To Recollect How Often We Have Told It To The Same Person?

However Rare True Love May Be, It Is Less So Than True Friendship.

To Achieve Greatness One Should Live As If They Will Never Die.

Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great Ones, As The Wind Extinguishes Candles And Fans Fires.

Decency Is The Least Of All Laws, But Yet It Is The Law Which Is Most Strictly Observed.

The Sure Mark Of One Born With Noble Qualities Is Being Born Without Envy.

If We Are To Judge Of Love By Its Consequences, It More Nearly Resembles Hatred Than Friendship.

There Is A Kind Of Elevation Which Does Not Depend On Fortune; It Is A Certain Air Which Distinguishes Us, And Seems To Destine Us For Great Things; It Is A Price Which We Imperceptibly Set Upon Ourselves.

We Seldom Find People Ungrateful So Long As It Is Thought We Can Serve Them.

The Accent Of One's Birthplace Remains In The Mind And In The Heart As In One's Speech.

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.

We Do Not Despise All Those Who Have Vices, But We Do Despise Those That Have No Virtue.

It Is Great Folly To Wish To Be Wise All Alone.

We Promise According To Our Hopes And Perform According To Our Fears.

There Are Very Few Things Impossible In Themselves; And We Do Not Want Means To Conquer Difficulties So Much As Application And Resolution In The Use Of Means.

In Friendship As Well As Love, Ignorance Very Often Contributes More To Our Happiness Than Knowledge.

In Friendship As Well As Love, Ignorance Very Often Contributes More To Our Happiness Than Knowledge.

There Are But Very Few Men Clever Enough To Know All The Mischief They Do.

Self-interest Makes Some People Blind, And Others Sharp-sighted.

It Is A Great Act Of Cleverness To Be Able To Conceal One's Being Clever.

Few People Have The Wisdom To Prefer The Criticism That Would Do Them Good, To The Praise That Deceives Them.

People's Personalities, Like Buildings, Have Various Facades, Some Pleasant To View, Some Not.

On Neither The Sun, Nor Death, Can A Man Look Fixedly.

We Have No Patience With Other People's Vanity Because It Is Offensive To Our Own.

One Can Find Women Who Have Never Had One Love Affair, But It Is Rare Indeed To Find Any Who Have Had Only One.

Our Actions Seem To Have Their Lucky And Unlucky Stars, To Which A Great Part Of That Blame And That Commendation Is Due Which Is Given To The Actions Themselves.

He Who Lives Without Folly Isn't So Wise As He Thinks.

Heat Of Blood Makes Young People Change Their Inclinations Often, And Habit Makes Old Ones Keep To Theirs A Great While.

There Is No Disguise Which Can Hide Love For Long Where It Exists, Or Simulate It Where It Does Not.

All The Passions Make Us Commit Faults; Love Makes Us Commit The Most Ridiculous Ones.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.