black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes