Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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
Violent
Hatred
Hate
Even
Life
Sinks
Beneath
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Taste may change, but inclination never.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Penetration has an air of divination it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
