1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing constant in life is change

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.