The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Changed Copy Share Image
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Drinking Copy Share Image
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Consideration Copy Share Image
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Certain Copy Share Image
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Birth Copy Share Image
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Altars Copy Share Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambiguous Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations — François De La Rochefoucauld Ideas Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contradiction Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in… — François De La Rochefoucauld Curiosity Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bitter Copy Share Image
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Imagine Copy Share Image
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own — François De La Rochefoucauld Pride Copy Share Image
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cease 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 Care Copy Share Image
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great ones Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Different Copy Share Image
