1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.