Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Currents Copy Share Image
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Caprice 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
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
We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 Considering Copy Share Image
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excuse Copy Share Image
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heard Copy Share Image
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Weakness Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acquire Copy Share Image
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad health Copy Share Image
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection 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
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Animals Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Certain 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
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few words Copy Share Image
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Art Copy Share Image
