Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Birth Place, Mind

• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Winning, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 62, 1678.

• Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Heart, Mind

• The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Art, Agitation

• It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Philosophy, Passion

• The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Heart, Consistency

• The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Broken Heart, Emotion, Intellect

• The heart is forever making the head its fool.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sweet Love, Hate, Heart

• If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Passion, Heart

• Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Numbers, Imagination

• The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Play, Long

• In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Spring, Passion, Heart

• Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mind, Speak

• In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Mean

• All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mind, Knows

• The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Heart, Men

• The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Heart, Sincerity

• The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Men

• The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mind

• Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Heart, Quality

• We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Imagine, Contradiction

• Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Looks

• The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Play, Long

• A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Heart, Men

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