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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.”
“A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.”
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.”
“The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.”
“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”
“The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
“To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.”
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“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.”
“Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.”
“Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.”
“There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.”