Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearing Copy Share Image
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue — François De La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Exercise Copy Share Image
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benefits Copy Share Image
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great men Copy Share Image
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Atheism Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Customs Copy Share Image
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acquainted 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
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Excuse Copy Share Image
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceitful Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Another man Copy Share Image
Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beautiful Copy Share Image
Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accidents Copy Share Image
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agitation Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Activity Copy Share Image
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Long Copy Share Image
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Anticipation Copy Share Image
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion Copy Share Image
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects 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
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Battle Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Be humble Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Condemn Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funeral Copy Share Image
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Offensive Copy Share Image
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accent Copy Share Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Condemn Copy Share Image
