Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 361. We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
- 362. We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
- 363. We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
- 364. We are almost always bored with people that we should not be bored with.
- 365. We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are o ...
- 366. We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by our greatest infidelity towards o ...
- 367. We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
- 368. We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
- 369. We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great o ...
- 370. We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
- 371. We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
- 372. We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
- 373. We are often quite inexperienced as we reach the different stages of life, and we often lack experie ...
- 374. We are quick to criticize other people's faults, but slow to use those faults to correct our own.
- 375. We become so used to disguising ourselves to others, that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves.
- 376. We can love nothing except what we base on our own selves, and when we prefer our friends to ourselv ...
- 377. We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
- 378. We concern ourselves less with becoming happy than we do to make others believe we are.
- 379. We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- 380. We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.