black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Despise Vice Virtue
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Extent Love Pardon
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Believe Doubt Love Most Often
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes