The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Compassion Copy Share Image
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in… — François De La Rochefoucauld Curiosity Copy Share Image
All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Differences Copy Share Image
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being faithful Copy Share Image
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Judgement Copy Share Image
There are some bad qualities which make great talents. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad qualities Copy Share Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One may outwit another, but not all the others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Coquetry Copy Share Image
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blockhead Copy Share Image
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brave Copy Share Image
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feelings Copy Share Image
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Praise Copy Share Image
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Order Copy Share Image
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
