Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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
Passions
Violent
Becomes
Passion
Woman
Best
Love
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often boast that we are never bored but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is rarer than true good nature they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the last thing that dies in man and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy we bear it without daring to look on it like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hatred is stronger than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
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
