Francois De La Rochefoucauld Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Francois De La Rochefoucauld quotes, Francois De La Rochefoucauld sayings, and Francois De La Rochefoucauld proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We never listen when we are eager to speak. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Only the contemptible fear contempt. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time. Francois de la Rochefoucauld