Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld
6 quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld (died 1680), taken from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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“The greatest effort of friendship is not to show our faults to a friend, but to show him his own.”
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“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”
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“When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe them pity.”
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“However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.”
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“Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.”
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“We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.”