We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
-
-
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Taste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD