We have a collection of 19 Men quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever." (ID 43660)


"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." (ID 43715)


"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love." (ID 44020)


"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter." (ID 44244)


"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love." (ID 44256)


"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend." (ID 44275)


"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men." (ID 44310)


"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune." (ID 44323)


"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with." (ID 44325)


"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away." (ID 44447)


"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do." (ID 44448)


"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples." (ID 44544)


"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular." (ID 44545)


"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed." (ID 44546)


"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so." (ID 44548)


"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices." (ID 44549)


"There is nothing men are so generous of as advice." (ID 44550)


"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." (ID 44552)


"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes." (ID 44554)


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