Quotes

“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

“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Usually we praise only to be praised.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld