Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Believe, Make Others Happy

• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Happy, Heart

• Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, People, Evil

• We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Joy, Torment

• The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Joy

• The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Opposites, Littles

• Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Beautiful, Imperfect

• We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness

• If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Inspiring, Failure

• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

• If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Pride, Complaining

• We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Unhappy

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

• Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Joy, Taste

• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Misery

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 61, 1678.

• Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Humor, Men

• One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Thinking, Unhappy

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Pain, Appearance

• There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Power, Excess

• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

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