Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

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