Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body 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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heart Copy Share Image
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition 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
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doubt Copy Share Image
That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constancy Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Giving Copy Share Image
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — 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
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others. — 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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
