Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them…

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone…

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to…

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away…

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age…

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil…

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to…

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these…

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen…

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice…