Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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
Leave
Passion
Agitates
Sometimes
Agitate
Passions
Vanity
Violent
Constantly
Rest
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions often engender their contraries.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
