Quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

#Jealousy

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

#Literature

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus...

#Merit

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

#Friendship, #Mistrust

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those...

#Obligation

We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others

#Praise

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them...

#Praise

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...

#Peace, #Self Knowledge

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

#People

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our...

#Pride

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey,...

#Play

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...

#Pleasure