Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes And Sayings

Most People Know No Other Way Of Judging Men's Worth But By The Vogue They Are In, Or The Fortunes They Have Met With.

In Most Of Mankind Gratitude Is Merely A Secret Hope Of Further Favors.

Nothing Prevents One From Appearing Natural As The Desire To Appear Natural.

People That Are Conceited Of Their Own Merit Take Pride In Being Unfortunate, That Themselves And Others May Think Them Considerable Enough To Be The Envy And The Mark Of Fortune.

When A Man Must Force Himself To Be Faithful In His Love, This Is Hardly Better Than Unfaithfulness.

When A Man Is In Love, He Doubts, Very Often, What He Most Firmly Believes.

Passion Makes Idiots Of The Cleverest Men, And Makes The Biggest Idiots Clever.

We Pardon To The Extent That We Love.

People Always Complain About Their Memories, Never About Their Minds.

You Can Find Women Who Have Never Had An Affair, But It Is Hard To Find A Woman Who Has Had Just One.

We Are More Often Treacherous Through Weakness Than Through Calculation.

Quarrels Would Not Last Long If The Fault Was Only On One Side.

Men Give Away Nothing So Liberally As Their Advice.

We Confess Our Little Faults To Persuade People That We Have No Large Ones.

We Only Acknowledge Small Faults In Order To Make It Appear That We Are Free From Great Ones.

It Is Not Enough To Have Great Qualities; We Should Also Have The Management Of Them.

Gracefulness Is To The Body What Understanding Is To The Mind.

It Is Easier To Be Wise For Others Than For Ourselves.

We Are Nearer Loving Those Who Hate Us Than Those Who Love Us More Than We Wish.

Great Souls Are Not Those Who Have Fewer Passions And More Virtues Than Others, But Only Those Who Have Greater Designs.

Those Who Occupy Their Minds With Small Matters, Generally Become Incapable Of Greatness.

Too Great Haste To Repay An Obligation Is A Kind Of Ingratitude.

We Often Forgive Those Who Bore Us, But We Cannot Forgive Those Whom We Bore.

Many Men Are Contemptuous Of Riches; Few Can Give Them Away.

The Defects And Faults Of The Mind Are Like Wounds In The Body; After All Imaginable Care Has Been Taken To Heal Them Up, Still There Will Be A Scar Left Behind, And They Are In Continual Danger Of Breaking The Skin And Bursting Out Again.

The Name And Pretense Of Virtue Is As Serviceable To Self-interest As Are Real Vices.

There Is No Better Proof Of A Man's Being Truly Good Than His Desiring To Be Constantly Under The Observation Of Good Men.

Though Men Are Apt To Flatter And Exalt Themselves With Their Great Achievements, Yet These Are, In Truth, Very Often Owing Not So Much To Design As Chance.

Politeness Is A Desire To Be Treated Politely, And To Be Esteemed Polite Oneself.

Ridicule Dishonors A Man More Than Dishonor Does.

We Should Often Blush For Our Very Best Actions, If The World Did But See All The Motives Upon Which They Were Done.

If We Have Not Peace Within Ourselves, It Is In Vain To Seek It From Outward Sources.

Why Can We Remember The Tiniest Detail That Has Happened To Us, And Not Remember How Many Times We Have Told It To The Same Person.

Nothing Is So Contagious As Example; And We Never Do Any Great Good Or Evil Which Does Not Produce Its Like.

The Heart Is Forever Making The Head Its Fool.

Conceit Causes More Conversation Than Wit.

There Are Very Few People Who Are Not Ashamed Of Having Been In Love When They No Longer Love Each Other.

How Can We Expect Another To Keep Our Secret If We Have Been Unable To Keep It Ourselves?

If It Were Not For The Company Of Fools, A Witty Man Would Often Be Greatly At A Loss.