Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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