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

Quote by FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Vanity Quotes

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others...

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others...

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if...

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if...

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do...

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do...

The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.

The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.

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...

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

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our...

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our...

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus...

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus...

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...

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

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...

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,...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are...

It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are...