1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.