François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“The constancy of the wise is the art to contain their excitement in the heart.”

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”

“We promise according to our expectations and we want according to our fears.”

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“There are good marriages, but there was none of delicious.”

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.”

“We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”

“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”

“Men give away nothing as so liberally as their advice.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different copies.”

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”

“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“When we are in love we often doubt that which we love most.”

“Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price advice can turn out badly.”