People Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Weak people cannot be sincere.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

— 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

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld