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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld