We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Greatness Copy Share Image
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discoveries Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Avarice Copy Share Image
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good men Copy Share Image
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude Copy Share Image
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Authenticity Copy Share Image
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decision making Copy Share Image
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Guilt Copy Share Image
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being jealous Copy Share Image
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Eloquence Copy Share Image
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Attention Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us — François De La Rochefoucauld Obligation Copy Share Image
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Events Copy Share Image
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
