Quotes Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire ...

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from o...

A man's worth has its season, like fruit....

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice....

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that whi...

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battl...

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Pos...

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great one...

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit...

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a ...

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few...

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish....

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us exam...

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against bei...

Conceit causes more conversation than wit....

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit....

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law whic...

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares spe...

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of hi...

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that woul...

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for wa...

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives u...

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorite...

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for t...

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to s...