Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affected Copy Share Image
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conceal Copy Share Image
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Artifice Copy Share Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cheating Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire 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
I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Extraordinary 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
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
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being jealous Copy Share Image
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conditions Copy Share Image
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cheated Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage… — François de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
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
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Expectations Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Adornment Copy Share Image
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Health Copy Share Image
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Answer Copy Share Image
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Jealousy Copy Share Image
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ill Copy Share Image
