Quote

In the human heart new passions are forever being born the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

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
Heart
Passion
Always
Forever
Born
Means
Another
Overthrow
Human
Passions
Humans
Rise
Mean
Almost

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men luck, that of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
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
Image
Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld