56 Quotes by Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.