Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men Quotes

What did Francois de La Rochefoucauld say about Men?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld has written many quotes about Men. E.g.,

• 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.
• Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
• A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Here are the top most famous quotes about Men by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

• 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.
• Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
• A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
• There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
• Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
• Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
• It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.