It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
He is safe who admits no one to his confidence. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ghosts 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
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal… — François de La Rochefoucauld Left behind Copy Share Image
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advantage Copy Share Image
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accountability Copy Share Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constancy Copy Share Image
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blindness Copy Share Image
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Audacious Copy Share Image
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“451.—No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit. 452.—No” — François de La Rochefoucauld Fools Copy Share Image
Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised — François De La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
![“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f92/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_done_we-sometimes-think-that-we-hate-flattery_815207.png)
