It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great minds Copy Share Image
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Esteem Copy Share Image
“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished” — François de La Rochefoucauld Beautiful things Copy Share Image
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
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 Customs Copy Share Image
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constancy Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may… — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being faithful Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delight Copy Share Image
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bored Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.” — François de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appreciation Copy Share Image
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Orators Copy Share Image
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
![“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]” quote by François de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b5/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_deceiving_87-men-would-not-live-long-in-society-we_757979.png)
