Pride Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in…

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld