Business Quote by La Rocherfoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld”

— Gabriela Popa

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

— Joseph Rickaby

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

— Francois Fenelon

“Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;”

— Italo Svevo

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

— Roger L'Estrange

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

— Victor Hugo