1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.