Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a…

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions…

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but…

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words…

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength…

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own…

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free…

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom…

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate…

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the…

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love…

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than…

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity…

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present…

Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness…