Character Quote by François De La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised” — François De La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Vice Virtue
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
