Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”

“We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”

“The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.”

“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”

“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”

“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.”