Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
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
Thousand
Times
Funny
Unaccountable
Much
Inconstancy
Fickle
Blame
Fortune
Humor
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature creates ability luck provides it with opportunity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp but never in a court.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
