Inspirational Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give nothing so freely as advice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon as long as we love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always like those who admire us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld