“We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. — 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 come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — 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
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and… — 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
