People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds. — 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
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. — 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
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — 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
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 Copy Share Image
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 Copy Share Image
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — 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
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. — 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
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
