Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We have few faults that are not more excusable in themselves than are the means which we use to conceal them.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
