1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Hope and fear are inseparable.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.