1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Time’s chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

A fashionable woman is always in love – with herself.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

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

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life’s ills.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself.

A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.

If a man doesn’t find ease in himself, ’tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them...