Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

"We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld in Health quotes.

"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 in Memory quotes.

"To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld in Ability quotes.

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
-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 in Habits quotes.

"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld in Advice quotes.

"Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The pleasure of love is in loving."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate."
-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

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld in Agreement quotes.

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The passions often engender their contraries."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld