We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bear Copy Share Image
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Impunity Copy Share Image
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friendship Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Different Copy Share Image
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great ones Copy Share Image
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Common Copy Share Image
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disguise Copy Share Image
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cure Copy Share Image
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Judging Copy Share Image
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceiving Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desirable Copy Share Image
It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Estimation Copy Share Image
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Safe Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Care Copy Share Image
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accomplishment 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 Bottom Copy Share Image
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Another time Copy Share Image
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agreeable Copy Share Image
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constancy Copy Share Image
Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Achievement Copy Share Image
“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may… — François de La Rochefoucauld Deception Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benefits 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 Acquaintance Copy Share Image
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being faithful Copy Share Image
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acting Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Apprehensive Copy Share Image
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Pride Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
The world is full of pots jeering at kettles. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jeering Copy Share Image
![“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]” quote by François de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b5/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_deception_87-men-would-not-live-long-in-society-we_757979.jpg)
