Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Quality
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Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
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Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
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In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
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The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
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There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
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There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
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The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
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It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
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Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
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The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
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It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.
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The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
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The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
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The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
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We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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