Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”

“If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.”

“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”

“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”

“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”

“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”