Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Quotes
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
The highest skill is the true judgment of values.
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.
The most trying fools are the bright ones.
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.
Nothing is given so willingly as advice.
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.