1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth