Quotes

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There 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.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The heart is forever making the head its fool.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.” 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

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld