Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Intellectual blemishes, like facial ones, grow more prominent with age.

We come fresh to the different stages of life, and in each of them we are quite inexperienced, no matter how old we are.

Few people know how to be old.

Too great an eagerness to discharge an obligation is a species of ingratitude.

Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his head.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt.