1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover’s being jealous.

He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character...

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it – in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.