Quotes About La Rochefoucauld

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

What I detest about these books of maxims is that they are so platitudinously true. A la Molière, Aesop, La Rochefoucauld—Shakespeare. They apply to all women, and that must include you too. But somehow it doesn't ring true to me. But it's disquieting.

There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities. —La Rochefoucauld

'Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

The gratitude of most men is only a secret desire to receive more favours.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

La Rochefoucauld: Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fire.