Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Generosity

Quotes about: Generosity

• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Order, Generosity

• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Generosity, Giving

• What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Vanity, Generosity

• On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

• Generosity is the vanity of giving.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Generosity, Giving

• Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Generosity, Thrift, Avarice

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