The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Capacity Copy Share Image
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Cleverness Copy Share Image
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Effects Copy Share Image
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
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 Ability Copy Share Image
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Elsewhere Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excess Copy Share Image
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Application Copy Share Image
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decadence Copy Share Image
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cheated Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being faithful Copy Share Image
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Birth Copy Share Image
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Becoming Copy Share Image
