Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in… — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
