Quote

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

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
Smiles
Fortune
Advantage
Turns
Things

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men luck, that of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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