Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
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
Power
Estimate
Things
Gifts
Appreciation
Worth
Greatest
Wisdom
Inspirational
True
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We forgive just so long as we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only security is courage.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
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
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is like credit it is the backbone of our relations frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men luck, that of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
