Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Mistake, Errors

• 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

• Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Mean, Gold

• In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Suffering, Coward

• That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Mistake

• It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Passion, Ambition

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