The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being loved Copy Share Image
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceive Copy Share Image
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accomplish Copy Share Image
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dishonor Copy Share Image
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dupes Copy Share Image
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good thing Copy Share Image
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Arise Copy Share Image
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Calm Copy Share Image
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Effects Copy Share Image
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acting Copy Share Image
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Abraham Copy Share Image
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Always believe Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Despised Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dangerous Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects Copy Share Image
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Comedy Copy Share Image
We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Experience Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy 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
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Goodness Copy Share Image
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Know Copy Share Image
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own — François De La Rochefoucauld Pride Copy Share Image
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bravery Copy Share Image
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Art Copy Share Image
Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind — François De La Rochefoucauld Good man Copy Share Image
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Greatness Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Broken Copy Share Image
