Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I have faced up to what I am.