Francois de La Rochefoucauld Faults Quotations

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Only great men have great faults.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Great men should not have great faults.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.