Skip to quotes
Glory 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 RochefoucauldWriter · French · 1613 – 1680
More from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Honesty Quotes
#Chance
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill
  • How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? — Curt Weldon
  • Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
  • When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026