1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.