To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. — 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
It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self. — 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 Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability. — 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 Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — 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 Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
