Top 15 François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

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

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.