black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Despise Vice Virtue
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
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
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Fool Forever Head Heart Make
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Evil Good Hero Well
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Death Eye Look Neither 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
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
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes