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Virtue Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
- When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
- Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
- It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
- What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how…
- If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
- To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
- Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
- However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find…
- We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
- Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
- It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
- Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
- The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
- The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
- Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
- 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…
- The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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