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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.”
“The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.”
“There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.”
“There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.”
“Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.”
“Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.”
“The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.”
“Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.”
“There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.”
“Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.”
“Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.”
“Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.”
“Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.”
“Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.”
“Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.”