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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.”
“Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.”
“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”
“Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.”
“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
“Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.”
“Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.”
“If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.”
“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”
“We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.”
“Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.”
“It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.”
“The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.”
“What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.”
“What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.”
“What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.”
“Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.”
“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”
“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”
“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”
“A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.”
“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
“Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.”
“You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.”
“We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.”
“The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”
“In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.”
“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”
“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.”