1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.