black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Easier General Know Men Particular
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Archive Die Greatness Live never
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes