Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Desire
Nothing
Men
Related Quotes:
" Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Fortunate
Rest
" The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Desire
Good
Mind
" When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Doubt
Which
" The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Face
Grow
Like
" If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Free
Heart
" Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many
Men
Riches
" People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Enough
Think
Pride
" Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some
Some People
Others
" 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
Shame
Us
Vanity
" How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Person
Remember
Us
" Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Alone
Her
Work
" Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
People
Change
" Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Worth
People
Way
" In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
World
Up
Say
" Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wit
Security
Sometimes
" We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cannot
Forgive
Who
" We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Much
Before
Others
" Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Innocence
Protection
Guilt
" 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
Head
Know
People
" When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Doubts
Very
Most
" Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fear
Done
Consequences
" The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Depend
Happiness
Men
" There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Goodness
Bad
People
" We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happy
Trying
Others
" Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every
Well
Speak
" Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Owe
Pay
Does
" We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hate
May
More
" Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Favors
Further
Secret
" Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Know
Who
Well
" It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise
Want
Only