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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

We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.


Note 

Note



Maxim 25


Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.

German
Es bedarf größerer Tugendhaftigkeit, das Glück zu ertragen, als das Unglück.




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See also...






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

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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