Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Related Quotes:

" Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" There are heroes in evil as well as in good. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" 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

" 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

" Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" 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

" We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" 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

" It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld