Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy we bear it without daring to look on it like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
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
Suffering
Daring
Often
Misfortunes
Look
Coward
Without
Resistance
Dejection
Looks
Suffer
Constancy
Like
Bear
Murdered
Bears
Cowards
Mistake
Misfortune
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature creates ability luck provides it with opportunity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are certain people fated to be fools they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride it seems to nourish and augment it it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
