Top 50 Man From La Quotes
#1. 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
#2. With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ...
Garcilaso De La Vega
#3. It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
Francois De La Noue
#5. A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.
Jean De La Bruyere
#6. A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.
Jean De La Bruyere
#10. Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
San Juan De La Cruz
#11. A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.
Jean De La Bruyere
#12. A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. Hi! handsome hunting man
Fire your little gun.
Bang! Now the animal
is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!
Walter De La Mare
#16. Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
Jean De La Bruyere
#17. It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#18. A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
William Hazlitt
#19. The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean De La Bruyere
#24. Yea, if a man possess all things he cannot be content, - the greater his possessions the less will be his contentment, for the heart cannot be satisfied with possessions, but rather in detachment from all things and in poverty of spirit.
San Juan De La Cruz
#25. An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
Jean De La Bruyere
#26. "He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
Sigmund Freud
#27. I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.
Ana De La Reguera
#30. A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
Jean De La Bruyere
#32. A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
Jean De La Bruyere
#33. A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
Jean De La Bruyere
#34. A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
Jean De La Bruyere
#37. the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
Aubrey F.G. Bell
#38. The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#39. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean De La Fontaine
#42. An Omelet a la Feb," she corrected him.
"I can't say that," he told her.
"Why not?"
"I'm a man, Feb. I don't say shit like, 'a la' anything.
Kristen Ashley
#44. A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.
Jean De La Bruyere
#45. A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#46. Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#47. Suddenly, stupidly, she started singing: "If Adelita went off with another man.
Carmen Posadas
#48. Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
Jean De La Bruyere
#49. 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
