Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 Copy Share Image
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. — 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
