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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.”
“It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.”
“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”
“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”
“The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.”
“We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.”
“Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.”
“Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.”
“Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.”
“The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.”
“Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.”
“The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.”
“To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.”
“It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.”
“Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.”
“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”
“The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.”
“Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.”
“Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.”