100 quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Taste may change, but inclination never.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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

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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We pardon to the extent that we love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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