1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.