Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
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
Weakness
Design
Men
Treason
Studied
Betray
Guilty
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
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
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
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
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only security is courage.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One honor won is a surety for more.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
