Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.