The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Concealed Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bravery Copy Share Image
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bargains Copy Share Image
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constant Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dictionary Copy Share Image
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Born Copy Share Image
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Oneself Copy Share Image
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Charm Copy Share Image
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Characteristics Copy Share Image
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Communication Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character 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
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affair Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Calm Copy Share Image
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Capable Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fashion Copy Share Image
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happens Copy Share Image
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
