Disgusting Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you…

— Lord Chesterfield

; We must not hate people who have done wrong to us. For as soon as we being to step to their level, we…

— Anonymous

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a…

— Ben Jonson

“The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is…

— Aristotle

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

— Ivan Turgenev

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

— Horace