Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Topics:
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Related Quotes
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them...
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity...
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of...
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once...
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and...
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves...
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to...
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing...
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think...
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of...
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all...
