black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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 heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
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
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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

Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

On Praise Usually

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0