Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
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
Leadership
Least
Knowing
Class
Ability
Others
Submit
Able
Consists
Good
Height
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
History never embraces more than a small part of reality
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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
Men and things have each their proper perspective to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
