Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

• Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Vanity, Brave

• The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Shame, Praise, Arise

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

• Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Envy

• The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Vanity

• People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, People, Envy

• Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Bravery, Greed

• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Emulation, Example

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