Secret Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy.…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld