Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Envy, Quality

• The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Quality, Noble

• The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Evil, Hatred, Quality

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 29, 1678.

• In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Faults, Please

• The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hypocrisy, Quality, Ridiculous

• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

• The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Play, Quality

• We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Quality

• All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Risk, Quality, Chance

• There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Success, Fate

• It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Quality, Self Discipline

• Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Air, Mind

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.223

• The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
  [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Quality, Ridiculous

• What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Mind, Quality

• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Self, Judging

• It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Feelings, Wish, Quality

• There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Talent

• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

• The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Quality, Praise

• Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Heart, Quality

• Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Use, Too Much

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

• Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hatred, Quality, Goodness

• It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Quality

• One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Reflection, Men

• Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Goodness, Notion

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