Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Fear

Quotes about: Fear

• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Fear, Commitment

  "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

• For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Truth, Fear

• Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fear, Fire

• None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Atheism, Weakness

• The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Vanity, Talking

• Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Done, May

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