"A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Great men’s success should always be measured against the means they used to reach it." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"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." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Hope is the last thing that dies in man." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Love’s greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Nothing is so infectious as example." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"One forgives to the degree that one loves." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"The passions are the only orators which always persuade." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the result of any great design, but of chance." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We should not judge a man’s merits by his qualities, but by the use he makes of them." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended." Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald
"What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." (Franc贸is de La R贸chefoucald)
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