Inspirational Quotations by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways
than on people who betray others in great ones.
- Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
- We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
- Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
- Humility is often only a feigned submission, of which we make use to render others submissive. It is an artifice of pride which abases in order to exalt itself.
- It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
- No accidents are so unlucky but that the wise may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the foolish may turn them to their own prejudice.
- Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.