The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advantage Copy Share Image
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude Copy Share Image
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Goodness Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Backbone Copy Share Image
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fashionable Copy Share Image
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearance Copy Share Image
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Habit Copy Share Image
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good quality Copy Share Image
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dangerous Copy Share Image
Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beautiful Copy Share Image
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Arise Copy Share Image
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree Copy Share Image
A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearance Copy Share Image
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Broken Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
