We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The heart is forever making the head its fool.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.