“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”
“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”
“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”
“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.”
“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
“We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”
“Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.”
“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”
“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
Source: Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
“The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.”
“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”
“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.”
“It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.”
“The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.”
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”