Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Propose
Selfishness
Another
Self
Even
Proposes
Kind
Disinterested
Always
Bargain
Love
Bargains
More quotes by 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
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to 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
The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
