1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.