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Top 500 François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes (2025 Update)
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François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We speak little if not egged on by vanity.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it – in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another’s inconstancy.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Time’s chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The mind is always the patsy of the heart.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “If a man doesn’t find ease in himself, ’tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “One honor won is a surety for more.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
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