Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

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