Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.