Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brave Copy Share Image
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blockhead Copy Share Image
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advantage Copy Share Image
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad fortune Copy Share Image
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
One may outwit another, but not all the others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
There are some bad qualities which make great talents. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad qualities Copy Share Image
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Judgement Copy Share Image
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heart Copy Share Image
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excess Copy Share Image
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evil Copy Share Image
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brilliant Copy Share Image
History never embraces more than a small part of reality — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
