François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes. Below is a collection of famous François de La Rochefoucauld quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld. Share these quotations with your friends and family.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Love
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Love
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Love
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
By Francois de la Rochefoucauld