Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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
Persons
Reprove
Timidity
Fault
Correct
Faults
Dangerous
Wish
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are very few things impossible in themselves and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
