1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.