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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.



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French
Ce que nous prenons pour des vertus n’est souvent qu’un assemblage de diverses actions et de divers intérêts, que la fortune ou notre industrie savent arranger ; et ce n’est pas toujours par valeur et par chasteté que les hommes sont vaillants, et que les femmes sont chastes.

German
Was wir für Tugenden halten, ist oft nur ein Gemisch von verschiedenartigen Handlungen und Interessen, denen das Geschick und unsere Geschicklichkeit ein vorteilhaftes Ansehen zu geben verstehen, und es ist nicht immer Tapferkeit und Ehrbarkeit, was die Männer tapfer und die Frauen ehrbar macht.




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Quotes for: interest


Quotes

Quotes about interest:


Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters; even that of disinterestedness.





All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.





The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.





Reason does not know the interests of the heart.





Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.





Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.











Quotes for: virtue


Quotes

Quotes about virtue:


The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.





Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.





The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.











Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.











Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Few people know how to be old.





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.












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