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

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Play, Long

• 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

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Spring, Passion, Heart

• 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

• Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Imagination, Doe

• In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Birth

• We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Heart, People

• When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Disturbed

• Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Understanding, Praise

• 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

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