“Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.” Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.” MercyPropertyFortuneProbity Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.” MenDependsFortuneDispositionBad Fortune Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.” FeelsSelfQualityJudgingFriendsSelf LoveIncreaseSatisfactionMeritProportionDiminishGood Quality Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.” PeopleReligiousFriendsConceitGeneralities Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.” SelfFriendshipSelf LoveTrafficProposeLove Always Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.” FriendshipPerfectTasteAccountsPreferenceInclinationPerfect Friendship Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Great men should not have great faults.” MenShouldGreatnessFaultsGreat Men Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.” WorldHonorAmbitionVanityHeroismDelightedDoings Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.” KnowsMindHeart Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld