Quotations From DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS

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• 291.

  Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 289 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
• 292.

  He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 343 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
• 293.

  The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 127 (1678).
• 294.

  We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 306 (1678).
  
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• 295.

  If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 140 (1678).
  
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• 296.

  It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 231 (1678).
• 297.

  We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 197 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
• 298.

  If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 73 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
  
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• 299.

  We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 243 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
• 300.

  In her first passions a woman loves her lover, but later she loves love itself.

  François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 473 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
  
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