Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
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
Praise
Increase
Deserve
Valour
Beauty
Strengthens
Quality
Tends
Desire
Urges
Given
Wit
Good
Qualities
More quotes by 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
It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great men should not have great faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man often believes himself leader when he is led as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
