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Top 500 François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes (2025 Update)
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François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “All women seem by nature to be coquettes.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver’s pride and the receiver’s cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.”
François de La Rochefoucauld Quote: “In love, the quickest is always the best cure.”
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