56 Quotes by Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.