1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.