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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

Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.


Note 

Note



Maxim 53


Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wikisource - La Rochefoucauld - Maximes et Réflexions morales (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Quelques grands avantages que la nature donne, ce n’est pas elle seule, mais la fortune avec elle qui fait les héros.

German
So große Vorzüge auch die Natur gewähren kann, ist sie es doch nicht allein, sondern mit ihr das Glück, was Helden macht.




See also 

See also...



Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.




Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.











Quotes for: hero


Quotes

Quotes for: hero


One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.





Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.





Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.





A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.





When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.





The countenance of bravery has a share in the victory.











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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