Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Organize one's values in the order of their worth

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Government, Order, Goal

• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

• 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

• The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cleverness, Know How, Knows

• What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Pride, Benefits

• Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fancy, Fortune, Values

• Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kings, Real, Men

• 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

• A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Fall, Men

• A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Letting Go, Wise, Men

• 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

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