The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others are often the cause of that courage so renowned among men — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.” — François La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
