Caprice Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caprice Fortune Temper Wealth Whimsical
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. — Rachilde Copy Share Image
When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
