Quotes by La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them.
--La Rochefoucauld 
In the misfortune of our friends we find something that is not displeasing to us.
--La Rochefoucauld
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to set a bad example.
--La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
--La Rochefoucauld
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
--La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
--La Rochefoucauld
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
--La Rochefoucauld
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
--La Rochefoucauld