Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. >>

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, >>

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. >>

Quotations about World

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one >>

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. >>

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile pol >>

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De