Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Giving, Expectations

• Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Mistake, Sacrifice

• Hope and fear are inseparable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Expectations, Inseparable

• 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

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