Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes

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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Folly
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Chance
Man
Reason
Taste
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude
Hope
Favors
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Body
Mind
Understanding
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice
Example
Man
Old
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Honor
Living
Vanity
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
May
Worth
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Thought
People
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Opinions
Sense
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Promise
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Promise
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People
Faults
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Faults
Order