“It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.”
“Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.”
“There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.”
“We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.”
“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”
“One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”
“We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.”
“If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.”
“There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”
“We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.”
“We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.”
“Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.”
“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.”
“Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.”
“There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.”
“The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.”
“Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.”
“The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.”
“Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.”
“Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.”