Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive… — Francois 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
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
