François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

There may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.

We are sure to displease when we speak too long and too often of one subject, and when we try to turn the conversation upon subjects that we think more instructive than others, we should enter indifferently upon every subject that is agreeable to others, stopping where they wish, and avoiding all they do not agree with.

It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.

We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.

The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget that they are no longer so.

Tel homme est ingrat, qui est moins coupable de son ingratitude que celui qui lui a fait du bien.

La sabiduría es al alma lo que la salud al cuerpo

Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée.

On aime mieux dire du mal de soi-même que de n'en point parler.

Le refus des louanges est un désir d'être loué deux fois.

If it was not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Le silence est le parti le plus sûr de celui qui se défie de soi-même.

There are follies as catching as infections.

— It is easier to govern others than to prevent being governed.