Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Authors.Citatepedia^®.com