1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Few men know all the ill they do.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.