The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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