Francois de La Rochefoucauld French Writer Quotations

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.