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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.”
“The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.”
“We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.”
“Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.”
“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”
“The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.”
“Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.”
“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.”
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”
“Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.”
“Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.”
“Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.”
“We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.”
“Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.”
“No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.”