“It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.”
“Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.”
“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.”
“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”
“We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.”
“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”
“Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.”
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”