It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ghosts Copy Share Image
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Pay Copy Share Image
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Audacious Copy Share Image
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Despise Copy Share Image
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envious Copy Share Image
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deeds Copy Share Image
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion Copy Share Image
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blood Copy Share Image
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benefits Copy Share Image
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Anti love Copy Share Image
“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Complain 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
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
“451.—No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit. 452.—No” — François de La Rochefoucauld Fools Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ill Copy Share Image
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coins Copy Share Image
Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised — François De La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry 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 persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ifs Copy Share Image
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agreeableness Copy Share Image
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Communication Copy Share Image
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Achievements Copy Share Image
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceive Copy Share Image
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Common Copy Share Image
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affair Copy Share Image
