Brave Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brave Chaste Chastity Disposition Men Shame Vanity
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When it comes to men, women will insist that a lunge in their direction is not always welcome, and yet they cannot forgive a… — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just… — Tiffany Madison 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 current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
If You Love Someone, Be Brave Enough To Tell Them., Otherwise Be Brave Enough To Watch Them To Be Loved By Someone Else. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
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And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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