François Rochefoucauld Quotes
+34All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
- François Rochefoucauld
+2When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
– Francois Rochefoucauld
+1If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1In jealousy there is more of self love than love.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- François Rochefoucauld
0The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
- François Rochefoucauld
0A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
- François Rochefoucauld
0There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
- François Rochefoucauld
0We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
- François Rochefoucauld
0All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- François Rochefoucauld
0We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
- François Rochefoucauld
0The pleasure of love is in loving.
- François Rochefoucauld
0It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
- François Rochefoucauld
0The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this: they are always talking of themselves.
- François Rochefoucauld
0The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
- François Rochefoucauld
