Chance Quote by François De La Rochefoucauld

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Anonymous

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in…

— Thucydides

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at…

— Herodotus

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

— Brian Sewell

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

— Luc de Clapiers