Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Pride, Views

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Time

• Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Mind, Poverty

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Pain, Appearance

• If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Might, Trouble

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