Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

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

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