Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes
French Writer September 15, 1613 – March 17, 1680
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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