Best quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs. He is part of the literary movement of classicism and best known for his maxims. Although he only officially published his Memoirs and his Maxims, his literary production is dense. ...more

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Topic(s): Love , Love Is , Easier

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Topic(s):

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

Topic(s): Kind , Love , Thousand

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Topic(s): Intention , Lays , Cheating

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Topic(s): Wisdom , Fronts , Gains

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Topic(s): Mind , Deals , Talking

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Topic(s): Men , Life , Passion

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Topic(s): Self , Friendship , Self Love

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Topic(s): Difficult , Overcoming , Inclination

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Topic(s): Thinking , Mind , Body

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Topic(s): Love , Love Is , Miracle

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Topic(s): Hatred , Envy , Incapable

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