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Qualities Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
- The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
- The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
- In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
- We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
- The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
- There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
- All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
- Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those…
- The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
- It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
- The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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