Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Good Man, Desire

• A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Workout, Desire, Praise

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Maxims. No. 152, 1922.

• When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Desire, Praise

• Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Polite, Treated

• There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Ignorant, Curiosity

• We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

• The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Desire

• There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Should, Wanted

• A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Men

• The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Desire, Cleverness

• Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  War, Enemy, Desire

• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

• The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

• The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Secret, Desire, Degradation

• The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Intimate

• When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Desire, Virtue

• Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Should

• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

• The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Eye, Mind

• The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Men, Secret

• However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Enemy

• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

• 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

  Desire, Quality, Praise

• Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Natural, Appearing

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