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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.”
“Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.”
“The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.”
“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”
“Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.”
“The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.”
“We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.”
“There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.”
“Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.”
“Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.”
“It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.”
“Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”