The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Astonish Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are few good women who do not tire of their role. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Backbone Copy Share Image
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affair Copy Share Image
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Past Copy Share Image
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affair Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advantage Copy Share Image
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Endeavor Copy Share Image
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
“321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Trade Copy Share Image
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Organize one's values in the order of their worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Goal Copy Share Image
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boredom Copy Share Image
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excess Copy Share Image
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fashionable Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brave Copy Share Image
We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doctor Copy Share Image
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
