François de La Rochefoucauld may refer to:
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
Few men know all the ill they do.
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.