Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Quotations

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

» Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

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

» We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

» There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

» Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

» 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.

» We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

» Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

» We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

» Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

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