“Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.”
“Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.”
“We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.”
“The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.”
“It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.”
“There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.”
“Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.”
“There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.”
“Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.”
“We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.”
“We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.”
“There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.”
“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”
“Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.”
“Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.”
“Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.”
“If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.”
“The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.”
“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”
“Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.”