Greatest Evils Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.”

— François La Rochefoucauld

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.”

— Francois La Rochefoucauld