Imagine Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld