Francois de la Rochefoucauld Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

17 Famous Quotes by Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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“We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.”
Disguise Quotes
“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
Fools Quotes
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”
Absence Quotes
“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.”
Admiration Quotes
“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.”
Anticipation Quotes
“We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.”
Behavior Quotes
“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
Chastity Quotes
“There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.”
Evil Quotes
“We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.”
Flattery Quotes
“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.”
Gratitude Quotes
“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.”
Innocence Quotes
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
Jealousy Quotes
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
Pride Quotes
“How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.”
Secrets Quotes
“When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.”
Vices Quotes
“We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.”
Weakness Quotes
“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”
Wrong Quotes
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