Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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
People
Spoken
Heard
Never
Would
Love
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Organize one's values in the order of their worth
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
