Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them… — 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
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
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — 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
