Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The highest skill is the true judgment of values. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The most trying fools are the bright ones. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices;… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is given so willingly as advice. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
