Quote

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

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
Gifts
Fancy
Fortune
Value
Values
Sets

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Taste may change, but inclination never.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are various sorts of curiosity one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld