458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 421. We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them ...
- 422. We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- 423. Weak people cannot be sincere.
- 424. Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
- 425. What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure o ...
- 426. What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends is not the distrust w ...
- 427. What grace is to the body, good sense is to the mind.
- 428. What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the th ...
- 429. What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
- 430. What makes us easily believe that others have defects is the fact that we all easily believe what we ...
- 431. What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong wh ...
- 432. What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we ...
- 433. What makes us so changeable in our friendships is that it is difficult to know the qualities of the ...
- 434. What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
- 435. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an i ...
- 436. What often prevents us from abandoning a single vice is the fact that we have so many.
- 437. What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small intere ...
- 438. What usually makes men brave and women chaste are vanity, shame, and most of all, disposition.
- 439. What we call generosity is often just the vanity of giving, which we like more than what we give awa ...
- 440. What we call virtues are often just a collection of casual actions and selfish interests which chanc ...
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