Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mediocre Copy Share Image
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Extremes Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funeral Copy Share Image
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld He man Copy Share Image
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Anticipation Copy Share Image
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Be young Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excuse Copy Share Image
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Employment Copy Share Image
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Application Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Customs Copy Share Image
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Catching Copy Share Image
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crazy Copy Share Image
