The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dare Copy Share Image
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Judgment Copy Share Image
There is more self-love than love in jealousy — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Jealousy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Easier Copy Share Image
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evil Copy Share Image
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust 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
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
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gains Copy Share Image
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Annoyance Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mistaken Copy Share Image
Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearing 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
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Achieve Copy Share Image
“The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Details Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constant Copy Share Image
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gold Copy Share Image
