People Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Page 2

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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