If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Effects Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Causes Copy Share Image
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conceal Copy Share Image
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great men Copy Share Image
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Exercise Copy Share Image
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benefits Copy Share Image
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brave Copy Share Image
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Again Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contagious Copy Share Image
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Judging Copy Share Image
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Esteem Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delicate Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acceptance 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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree Copy Share Image
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Best way 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
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conditions Copy Share Image
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contradiction Copy Share Image
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Esteem Copy Share Image
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished” — François de La Rochefoucauld Beautiful things Copy Share Image
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doers Copy Share Image
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great minds Copy Share Image
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disgrace Copy Share Image
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Complaining Copy Share Image
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad company Copy Share Image
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cleverness Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Amount Copy Share Image
