Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

French - Writer | September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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