Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
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
Heart
Sincerity
Confidence
Upon
Found
Insinuate
Others
Dissimulation
Certain
Commonly
Look
Openness
Looks
Hypocrisy
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.
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
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
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
Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few know how to be old.
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
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one the other is based on our pride in being faithful.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
