Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Work, Office, Doe

  "Maximes", 164, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 919-20, 1922.

• When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Giving, Expectations

• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Office

• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Office

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 83, 1678.

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