François de La Rochefoucauld may refer to: (wikipedia)
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.