Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. 女人的美德往往只是对她们自己的宁静和对她们名誉的柔情的尊重。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. 想要谈论自己，想要表现出那些我们不介意看到的缺点，这构成了我们真诚的很大一部分。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. 想让自己看起来聪明的欲望常常让我们无法变得聪明。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. 我们总是爱那些钦佩我们的人，但我们并不总是爱那些我们钦佩的人。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. 想成为唯一明智的人是愚蠢至极的。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. 一个人永远不会像他想象的那样幸运或不幸。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. 一个人的母语的口音留在他的头脑和心里，就像它在他的讲话中一样。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. 拒绝表扬就是想被表扬两次。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. 自负比机智更能引起交谈。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. 哲学发现战胜过去和未来的罪恶是一件容易的事，但是现在通常太难了。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵