1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.