1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.