All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
