1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.