François de La Rochefoucauld quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
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.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to know man in general than to know one man.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Usually we only praise to be praised.
François de La Rochefoucauld
How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?
François de La Rochefoucauld
We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The mind is always the patsy of the heart. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
François de La Rochefoucauld