black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Topics

Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Imagine Leave Them Vice
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Easier Other Ourselves Wise
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
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
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes