Quote

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

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
Foolishly
Madly
Respectable
Folly
May
Men
Love

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
In the human heart new passions are forever being born the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Old people are fond of giving good advice it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld