Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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
Despise
Vices
Virtue
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
