1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.