Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Appearance

Quotes about: Appearance

• To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Appearance, Persons

• No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Honor, Peers

• The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Justice, Diversity, Rewards

• In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Personality, Culture

• In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Wish, Looks

• In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wish, Actors, World

• The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Appearance, Objects

• A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Order, Doe

• Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Truth, Doe, World

• We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Pain, Appearance

• Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hurt, Truth, World

• The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, Merit, World

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