A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hate Copy Share Image
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brain Copy Share Image
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bad health Copy Share Image
“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ashamed Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Christian Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Business Copy Share Image
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Reason Copy Share Image
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ballads Copy Share Image
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Orators Copy Share Image
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blind Copy Share Image
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appreciation Copy Share Image
There are few good women who do not tire of their role. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Feminism Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
