Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faultless Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friendship Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bargain Copy Share Image
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Breeding Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faculty Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Events 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
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Attention Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Arise Copy Share Image
We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us — François De La Rochefoucauld Obligation Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Should Copy Share Image
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blame Copy Share Image
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Humility Copy Share Image
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Copy Share Image
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discoveries Copy Share Image
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Birth Copy Share Image
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acknowledge Copy Share Image
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good men 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
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bored Copy Share Image
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contradiction Copy Share Image
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beauty Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Done Copy Share Image
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal… — François de La Rochefoucauld Left behind Copy Share Image
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Certainty Copy Share Image
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clear Copy Share Image
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absolutes Copy Share Image
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faithful Copy Share Image
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Admiration Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
![“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f92/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_done_we-sometimes-think-that-we-hate-flattery_815207.jpg)
