Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.
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
Giving
Endure
Inclinations
Men
Neither
Praiseworthy
Opinion
Constancy
Away
Enduring
Certain
Continuity
Seems
Inclination
Give
Perseverance
Take
Opinions
Blameworthy
More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Youth is a perpetual intoxication it is a fever of the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
