Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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
Body
Mind
Solemnity
Device
Devices
Hide
Faults
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Penetration has an air of divination it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood age retains its tastes by habit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
