List of Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Total Quotes 1096
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
Ambition Appearance Objects
Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.
Memories Blame Judgment
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
Real Ghost Speak
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
Advantage Fortune Turns
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Delicacy Cleverness Deceptive
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.
Mind Employment Littles
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
Powerful Heart People
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
Soul Mind Quality
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
Fire Perpetual Perpetual Motion
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. the envy of not possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
Regret Hate Envy
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.
Trying Answers Way
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
Deceit Distrust Justify
  • Born: September 15, 1613
  • Died: March 17, 1680
  • Occupation: Author
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