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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.”
“The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.”
“The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.”
“A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.”
“A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.”
“Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.”
“Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.”
“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”
“Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.”
“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”
“True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.”
“As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.”
“Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.”
“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”
“Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.”
“True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.”