François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind."
118 Quotes
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
François de La Rochefoucauld
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