100 quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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