1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.