Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wish
Know
Desire
Related Quotes:
" Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Veterans Day
Perfect
Without
" There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Innocent
Number
Through
" The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Desire
Either
Proceed
" It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Very
Mind
Believe
" Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Know
Who
Well
" Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good
Say
People
" We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Experience
Life
Find
" There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Air
Price
" No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Power
Nothing
Goodness
" We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Deliver
Our
Hopes
" Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Her
Everything
Advantage
" In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope
Secret
Favors
" We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cannot
Forgive
Who
" The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ready
Hate
More
" People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Buildings
View
Pleasant
" 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
Conversation
People
Thinking
" There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Goodness
Bad
People
" As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Talent
Saying
Great
" Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
Clever
Idiots
" 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
" It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ourselves
Wise
Easier
" We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Patience
People
Vanity
" Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those
Great
Suspect
" 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
" There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who
Other
Been
" If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Resist
Strength
Than
" We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Big
People
Faults
" The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind
Body
Care
" 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
" 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
Rise
Heart
Human