Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Achieve, Should

• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Mind, Matter

• Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Giving, Attention

• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

• It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Defects

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Maximes, 1922.

• Great men should not have great faults.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Faults

• None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Greatness, Flaws

• Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Greatness, Envy

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