Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Giving

• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Success, Fate

• Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wicked, Vices

• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

• In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Birth

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