There is more self-love than love in jealousy — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Jealousy Copy Share Image
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friend Copy Share Image
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discretion Copy Share Image
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Caprice Copy Share Image
We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character 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
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
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 Friendship Copy Share Image
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Consideration Copy Share Image
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
![“The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3f/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_character_the-qualities-we-have-do-not-make-us-so_550676.png)
