We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feel good Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being betrayed Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delicate Copy Share Image
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Secret Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good nature Copy Share Image
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conflict Copy Share Image
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects Copy Share Image
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly 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 Cunning Copy Share Image
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Activity Copy Share Image
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Easier Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree 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
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Circulation Copy Share Image
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Behalf Copy Share Image
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Endeavor Copy Share Image
Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enlightening Copy Share Image
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Flattery Copy Share Image
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Judgement Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Despised Copy Share Image
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
