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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Little Big Faults Persuade

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men Mind Believe Weakness Able Very

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity Giving Exercise Vanity

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love Long Hide Disguise Where Which

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy Virtue Vice Homage Pays

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion Men Clever Idiots Makes

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

Impossible Say Nothing Will Always

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear Consequences Done Repentance

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love Good People Advice Bad Old

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Relationship Great Wind Fans Absence

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Guilt Innocence Find Protection Much

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Impossible Conquer Resolution Want

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