1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.