Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Chastity

Quotes about: Chastity

• It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Brave, Valor

• Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Mind, Politeness

• Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Vanity, Brave

• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Bored, Virtuous Woman

• We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

• What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Ambition, Men

• The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Vanity

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