We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feel Copy Share Image
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cast away Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Circulation Copy Share Image
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Greatness Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doubt Copy Share Image
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Humility Copy Share Image
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evil Copy Share Image
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gain Copy Share Image
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blessings Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Concern 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
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fortunate Copy Share Image
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contemptuous Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Creativity Copy Share Image
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conflict Copy Share Image
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ease Copy Share Image
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Clever 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
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Commit Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Annoyance Copy Share Image
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cost Copy Share Image
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Favors Copy Share Image
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects Copy Share Image
It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them — François De La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Depends Copy Share Image
