We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disguised Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Born Copy Share Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld And love Copy Share Image
Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bitter Copy Share Image
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Commend Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in… — François De La Rochefoucauld Curiosity Copy Share Image
All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Differences Copy Share Image
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blame Copy Share Image
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being faithful Copy Share Image
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambiguous Copy Share Image
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acquainted Copy Share Image
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Atheism Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Customs Copy Share Image
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enemies Copy Share Image
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Characteristics Copy Share Image
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Easier Copy Share Image
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Born Copy Share Image
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clear Copy Share Image
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Certain Copy Share Image
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Attack Copy Share Image
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Credit Copy Share Image
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Adversity Copy Share Image
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disposition Copy Share Image
A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him — François De La Rochefoucauld Satisfaction Copy Share Image
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Artifice Copy Share Image
It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Difficult 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
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Flirting Copy Share Image
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ill Copy Share Image
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is. — François De La Rochefoucauld Benefactor Copy Share Image
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beholder Copy Share Image
