Famous Quotes

Quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
• If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
• If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
• In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
• In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
• In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
• It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
• It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
• It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
• It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
• It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
• It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
• It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
• It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.