Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Flatterer Copy Share Image
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Greatness Copy Share Image
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Opinion Copy Share Image
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Alive Copy Share Image
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little… — 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
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Affairs Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability 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
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
