Deals Quote by 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 is still…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him…

— Francois Truffaut

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself…

— Michel de Montaigne

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may…

— Barry Unsworth

“He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew…

— A.M. Homes

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it”

— Madeline Miller