We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heart Copy Share Image
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him — François De La Rochefoucauld Satisfaction Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Adversity Copy Share Image
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being yourself Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage… — François de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
