Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Truth, Fear

• The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Reality, Self

• The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Done, Riches

• When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Revenge, Philosophical, Mind

• The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Secret, Desire, Degradation

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