Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

It is often temperament which makes men brave and women chaste.

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

The only thing constant in life is change.

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.