More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

1. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, an ...
   
2. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases ...
   
3. As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foo ...
   
4. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, l ...
   
5. Confidence contributes more to conversation than w ...
   
6. Few are agreeable in conversation, because each th ...
   
7. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it ...
   
8. Good advice is something a man gives when he is to ...
   
9. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further fav ...
   
10. He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thi ...
    
11. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. ...
    
12. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take ...
    
13. In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of lo ...
    
14. It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ...
    
15. It is often merely for an excuse that we say thing ...
    
16. It takes nearly as much ability to know how to pro ...
    
17. Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into f ...
    
18. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice ...
    
19. Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn every ...
    
20. No persons are more frequently wrong, than those w ...
    
21. Not all those who know their minds know their hear ...
    
22. Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking an ...
    
23. Old men are fond of giving advice to console thems ...
    
24. One forgives to the degree that one loves. ...
    
25. Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill w ...
    
26. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and fut ...
    
27. Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worris ...
    
28. Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wis ...
    
29. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were onl ...
    
30. Small minds are much distressed by little things. ...
    
31. Small minds are much distressed by little things. ...
    
32. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives bi ...
    
33. The defects of the understanding, like those of th ...
    
34. The glory of great men should always be measured b ...
    
35. The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal ...
    
36. The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy t ...
    
37. The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. ...
    
38. The most dangerous folly of old people who were on ...
    
39. The pleasure of love is in loving. ...
    
40. The sort of liveliness which increases with age is ...
    
41. The truest mark of being born with great qualities ...
    
42. There are very few women in society whose virtue o ...
    
43. There is no disguise which can hide love for long ...
    
44. To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our f ...
    
45. To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is ...
    
46. To establish oneself in the world, one has to do a ...
    
47. To listen closely and reply well is the highest pe ...
    
48. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks abo ...
    
49. Vanity makes us do more things against inclination ...
    
50. We all have strength enough to endure the misfortu ...
    
51. We always like those who admire us we do not alway ...
    
52. We are more interested in making others believe we ...
    
53. We confess our little faults to persuade people th ...
    
54. We often do good in order that we may do evil with ...
    
55. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot ...
    
56. We rarely think people have good sense unless they ...
    
57. We should manage our fortunes as we do our health ...
    
58. We should often be ashamed of our finest actions i ...
    
59. We think very few people sensible, except those wh ...
    
60. We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds i ...
    
61. What seems to be generosity is often no more than ...
    
62. When we are unable to find tranquility within ours ...
    
63. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain ...