black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Always Heart Mind

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Easier Other Ourselves Wise
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Foolish Glow Older Wiser
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Imitation Kind Love Thousand
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Always Heart Mind
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
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

All Ourselves Speak Talk
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Company Keep Variety Virtue
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Hate Love More Near Wish
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Also Enough Great Manage Quality
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Easier General Know Men Particular
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes