Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

French Writer

Born: Sep 15, 1613

Died: Mar 17, 1680

Good Great Love Man More People

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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our Faults More Conceal Most Than Them Means Use

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Our Faults Confess Little Persuade Large

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good Man Will Power Goodness Nothing Wicked Sloth More Generally Without Praised His Impotence Than Who Deserves

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everything Favorites Advantage Converts Fortune Her

Only the contemptible fear contempt. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear Only Contempt Contemptible

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love Men Ambition Back Seldom Come Pass Often Again To Love

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue Pretense Name Self-Interest Real Vices Serviceable

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man More Does Than Dishonor Ridicule

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our Like Leave Leaving Vices Them Us Who Imagine

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