1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.