Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Vanity
Gives
Money
Giving
Kind
Flattery
Currency
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
