black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Annoy Often Paradon Us
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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
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
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes