1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.