Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Luck Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we...

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame. It's useless to chase it...

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame. It's useless to chase it...

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in...

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in...

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to...

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to...

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of...

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of...

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

Middle age is when you say, 'I did that twenty years ago' and twenty years...

Middle age is when you say, 'I did that twenty years ago' and twenty years...

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.