All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Authenticity Copy Share Image
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Music Copy Share Image
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Eloquence Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acceptance Copy Share Image
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Esteem Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contradiction Copy Share Image
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being jealous Copy Share Image
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Best way Copy Share Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Greatness Copy Share Image
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Eloquence Copy Share Image
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decision making Copy Share Image
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Guilt Copy Share Image
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being jealous Copy Share Image
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brilliant Copy Share Image
A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evil Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
History never embraces more than a small part of reality — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Crime Copy Share Image
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Behavior Copy Share Image
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
