We have a collection of 17 Good quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example." (ID 39073)


"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them." (ID 39396)


"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions." (ID 39456)


"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self." (ID 39863)


"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new." (ID 39866)


"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity." (ID 39900)


"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men." (ID 39902)


"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them." (ID 39903)


"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being." (ID 39905)


"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples." (ID 39911)


"There are heroes in evil as well as in good." (ID 39913)


"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest." (ID 39917)


"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us." (ID 39918)


"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune." (ID 39922)


"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us." (ID 39941)


"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like." (ID 39956)


"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" (ID 39958)


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