1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

We always like those who admire us.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.