If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength — Francois La Rochefoucauld Passion Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Appearance Copy Share Image
We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Belief Copy Share Image
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process — Francois La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Famous love Copy Share Image
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes — Francois La Rochefoucauld Fortunes Copy Share Image
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Clockwork angel Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Famous love Copy Share Image
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Intelligence Copy Share Image
“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.” — François La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Betrayal Copy Share Image
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Famous love Copy Share Image
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Blessings Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Inconstancy Copy Share Image
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Wisdom Copy Share Image
The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others — Francois La Rochefoucauld Confidence Copy Share Image
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Great minds Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Age Copy Share Image
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on — Francois La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Causes Copy Share Image
Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
The truly wise, Will only prize, Good manners, Sense and learning — Francois La Rochefoucauld Good man Copy Share Image
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say,… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Happiness Copy Share Image
The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Courage Copy Share Image
