black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Imagine Leave Them Vice
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes