Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld