Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either…

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth…

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others…

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude…

A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more…

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than…

There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to…

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love…

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with…

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever…

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular…

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so…

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to…

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill…

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations…