Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it is not the effect of wisdom and intention.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have no peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld