Cast away Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cast away Casts Loses Pride Vanity
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again.… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again.… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. — Momofuku Ando Copy Share Image
How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast… — Soyen Shaku Copy Share Image