People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accepting Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Censure Copy Share Image
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.” — François de la Rochefoucauld Forgiveness Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disguise Copy Share Image
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Comparison Copy Share Image
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects Copy Share Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mind Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Avarice Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appreciate Copy Share Image
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Christian Copy Share Image
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
“True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Authenticity Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discretion Copy Share Image
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Copy Share Image
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Been in love Copy Share Image
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears 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
