Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

TruthGreatMenChanceDesignMuch

I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.

Ann Coulter

GratefulThinkKnowDeadOnlyWho

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

ChangeFightDebateClimate Change

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

John Sulston

ImportantInvestmentOilCastles

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

Amy Heckerling

PeopleThinkAlwaysOutTried

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robinson Jeffers

NatureHuman NatureHumanCrueltyUs

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

Ron Wyden

BusinessWordsPeoplePriceOilBuy

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

Roland Emmerich

SuccessMatterOutBecauseMovie

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Mike DeWine

TimePeopleConstitutionConversation

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

Corey Feldman

WomenBeautifulAddictionAlways

I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.

Bozoma Saint John

LoveSacrificeSleepOne ThingMuch

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Bram Stoker

AgeMenMayOnlyPartGuess

I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

DreamsCityMeWorldYouNobody

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