Famous Quotes

Quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

• Taste may change, but inclination never.
• The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
• The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
• There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
• There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
• There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
• There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
• There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
• They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
• Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
• Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
• Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
• Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
• True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.