Quotes by : La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans....

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

Few people know how to be old.

When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.