Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 401. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
- 402. We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are; yet it is self-interes ...
- 403. We often select envenomed praise which by a reaction upon those we praise shows faults we could not ...
- 404. We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
- 405. We pardon to the extent that we love.
- 406. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
- 407. We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
- 408. We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- 409. We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- 410. We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a position to be helpful.
- 411. We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what desired.
- 412. We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
- 413. We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, a ...
- 414. We should not judge a man's virtue by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.
- 415. We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them ...
- 416. We should only be astonished at still being able to be astonished.
- 417. We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
- 418. We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
- 419. We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
- 420. We try to make a virtue of the vices that we are unwilling to correct.