“Few people know how to be old.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Hope and fear are inseparable.”
“Weak people cannot be sincere.”
“Fortune and humor govern the world.”
“Usually we praise only to be praised.”
“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”
“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”
“The mind is always the patsy of the heart.”
“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”
“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
“It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.”
“Only the great can afford to have great defects.”
“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
“We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.”
“We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.”
“It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.”
“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
“There are few good women who do not tire of their role.”