Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld