More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."