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

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them...

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them...

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to...

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to...

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of...

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of...

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find...

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find...

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either...