Faults Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great men should not have great faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only great men have great faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld