Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
-
-
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
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 -
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
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 -
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD