Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Sincerity

Quotes about: Sincerity

• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Winning, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 62, 1678.

• However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Sincerity, Distrust

• The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Desire

• The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Failing, Sincerity

• Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Looks

• The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Heart, Sincerity

• We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Order, Damage

• Weak people cannot be sincere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Weakness, Sincerity

• However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, May

• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, May, Action

• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

• Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Believe, May

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