When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doubt Copy Share Image
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cast away Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Copy Share Image
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conflict Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Distrust Copy Share Image
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Copy Share Image
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good men Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Avarice Copy Share Image
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Discoveries Copy Share Image
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Birth Copy Share Image
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Beauty Copy Share Image
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Body Copy Share Image
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds of the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal… — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Flaws Copy Share Image
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our… — François De La Rochefoucauld Greed Copy Share Image
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blindfolds Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Care Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bravery Copy Share Image
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Creativity Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Defects Copy Share Image
It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Annoyance Copy Share Image
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
