Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Civility Copy Share Image
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Affection Copy Share Image
“True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Authenticity Copy Share Image
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brave Copy Share Image
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friend Copy Share Image
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decency Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dictionary Copy Share Image
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Animals Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agitation Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cynical Copy Share Image
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deception Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Abilities Copy Share Image
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude Copy Share Image
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
