Mind Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld