Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 201. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
- 202. Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the ...
- 203. Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
- 204. Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
- 205. Pride is for the most part the same in everybody -- the only difference is in the method and manner ...
- 206. Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.
- 207. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
- 208. Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
- 209. Quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examining it is the effect of pride and lazi ...
- 210. Rank is to virtue what dress is to a pretty woman.
- 211. Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or t ...
- 212. Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
- 213. Self-interest blinds some people, and makes others see.
- 214. Self-love either increases or diminishes our measure of the good qualities of our friends, and does ...
- 215. Self-love either increases or diminishes our measure of the good qualities of our friends, and does ...
- 216. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- 217. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- 218. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
- 219. Silence is the safest policy for he who distrusts himself.
- 220. Sincerity is an openness of heart that is found in very few people. What we usually see is only an a ...