Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Topics:
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Related Quotes
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate...
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that...
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with...
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to...
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions,...
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but...
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred...
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and...
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a...
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see...
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
