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Quotes About Rochefoucauld

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
~ T. S. Eliot