Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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