Quote by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image ““248.—Magnanimity despises all, to win all.”” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” — Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae."… — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. — François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
