Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Featured quote“It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We always get bored with those whom we bore.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” 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