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François de La Rochefoucauld

Quote of François de La Rochefoucauld - It is easier to be wise...


Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

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

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


Note 

Note




Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wikisource - La Rochefoucauld - Maximes et Réflexions morales, Ménard, 1817 (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que de l'être pour soi-même.

German
Es ist leichter für andere weise zu sein, als für sich selbst.




See also 

See also...



Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.




Quotes for: sage


Quotes

Quotes for: sage


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.





Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.





From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.





Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.





The wise man is rich





A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.











Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





I accept the great adventure of being me.











Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


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.





If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.












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