"As favor and riches forsake a man, we……" — Jean de la Bruyere
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
More Concealed Quotes
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to… — HonorÈ De Balzac
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
- Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. — Theodor Adorno
- I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed… — Sandra Bullock
- Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human… — Friedrich Engels
- No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a… — Blaise Pascal
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their… — Samuel Johnson
- Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by… — Ambrose Bierce
- Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something… — Charles Caleb Colton
- In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche