Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes (12+)

Enjoy the best Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes. Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French Author)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

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

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one that we take the least thought to acquire.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

About the Author

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) was a French nobleman and moralist whose 'Maxims' cynical yet witty observations of human behavior became world-famous.