1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Les femmes peuvent moins surmonter leur coquetterie que leur passion.

It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.