Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Kind Copy Share Image
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being jealous Copy Share Image
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceitful Copy Share Image
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being wise Copy Share Image
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deception Copy Share Image
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confess Copy Share Image
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Concur Copy Share Image
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
One may outwit another, but not all the others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age 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
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Another man Copy Share Image
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bottom Copy Share Image
