The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fortune Copy Share Image
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Acquainted Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Customs Copy Share Image
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Atheism Copy Share Image
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great men Copy Share Image
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Exercise Copy Share Image
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
None but great men are capable of having great flaws. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Comparison Copy Share Image
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Order Copy Share Image
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Disease Copy Share Image
One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Generosity Copy Share Image
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy 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
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
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
