1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.....

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.