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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

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.


Note 

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Maxim 27


Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
On fait souvent vanité des passions même les plus criminelles ; mais l’envie est une passion timide et honteuse que l’on n’ose jamais avouer.

German
Man prunkt oft mit Leidenschaften, selbst mit den strafbarsten; der Neid aber ist eine schämige, lichtscheue Leidenschaft, die man niemals einzugestehen wagt.




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Quotes for: to dare


Quotes

Quotes for: to dare


I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





He who can endure all can dare all.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.





Dare to be wise, begin!





Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.





I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.











Quotes for: passion


Quotes

Quotes about passion:


Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.





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





Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.





To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.











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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