Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

We always dread the sight of the person we love when we have been coquetting elsewhere.

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.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

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