Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld