The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Esteem Copy Share Image
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Air Copy Share Image
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Be young Copy Share Image
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contradiction Copy Share Image
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accomplishment Copy Share Image
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Counterfeit Copy Share Image
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Achievement Copy Share Image
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accomplish Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Arise Copy Share Image
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good thing Copy Share Image
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Elsewhere Copy Share Image
