Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness. >>

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. >>

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most >>

Quotations about Gratitude

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the >>

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not >>

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. >>

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De