Francois de La Rochefoucauld Taste Quotations

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.