Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
More Quotes from Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld:
Old people are fond of giving good advice it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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