Quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

#Flattery

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a...

#Generosity

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

#Grace

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind

#Grace

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

#Gratitude

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

#Gratitude, #Hope, #Secrets

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits

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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

#Health

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

#Heroism

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue

#Hypocrisy

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations

#Ideas

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who...

#Imagination