Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Triviality
Small
Occupy
Become
Capability
Matter
Incapable
Mind
Generally
Matters
Greatness
Pettiness
Minds
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prudence and love are inconsistent in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity and most men die because they cannot help it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
