The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
- There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
- True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
- We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
- Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
- We pardon to the extent that we love.
- Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Best Quotes
- I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
- Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
- Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
- Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
- Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.