Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Copy Share Image
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Events Copy Share Image
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us — François De La Rochefoucauld Obligation Copy Share Image
A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Communication Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being together Copy Share Image
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Astonish Copy Share Image
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boredom Copy Share Image
“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Interest Copy Share Image
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Applause Copy Share Image
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Boredom Copy Share Image
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Organize one's values in the order of their worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Goal Copy Share Image
![“The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcf/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_being-together_the-reason-why-lovers-and-their-mistress_3032844.png)
