If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love Quotes
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Friendship Quotes
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Friendship Quotes
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.