When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceit Copy Share Image
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Honest Copy Share Image
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Harm Copy Share Image
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delightful Copy Share Image
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. — François De La Rochefoucauld Flattery Copy Share Image
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Civility Copy Share Image
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faithful Copy Share Image
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Admiration Copy Share Image
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absolutes Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearances Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boast Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discovery Copy Share Image
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Athenians Copy Share Image
The passions often engender their contraries. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contraries Copy Share Image
