Self Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is more self-love than love in jealousy

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

— 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

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

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

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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