Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

Quote by FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Vice Quotes, Virtue Quotes

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more...

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more...

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey,...

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey,...

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others

We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are...

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are...

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether...

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...