There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld