black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Archive Die Greatness Live never
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Always Orator Passion Persuade
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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

Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes