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9076 quotesConceit causes more conversation than wit.
Conversation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Decency
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Funerals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Fools and Foolishness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Secrets
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Humility
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
Health
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Men
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun