Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bigs Copy Share Image
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us — François De La Rochefoucauld Pride Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blame Copy Share Image
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boredom 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 Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bored Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Avarice Copy Share Image
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men Copy Share Image
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discovery Copy Share Image
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Birth Copy Share Image
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accepting Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delicate Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business 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 Appearance Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Another man 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 Deceitful Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excuse Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bias Copy Share Image
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree 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
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Convince 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
