100 quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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

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“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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

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“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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

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