François de La Rochefoucauld > Quotes

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“The only thing constant in life is change”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

“Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“One may outwit another, but not all the others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld