Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own — François De La Rochefoucauld Pride Copy Share Image
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bravery Copy Share Image
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Goodness Copy Share Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Competition Copy Share Image
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fortune Copy Share Image
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Praise Copy Share Image
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Order Copy Share Image
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feelings Copy Share Image
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disease Copy Share Image
