« All Being Quotes · Francois de La Rochefoucauld's Page
Being Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
- People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the…
- The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
- It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
- Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
- There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
- The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
- In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
- Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
- That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how…
- Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it…
More Being Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong