Quote

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Saying
Talking
Words
Lesser
Nothing
Faculty
Great
Minds
Much
Deal
Mind
Deals
Talent

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Great men should not have great faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld