Zitate von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Wie kann man annehmen, ein anderer würde unser Geheimnis hüten, wenn wir es doch selbst nicht hüten konnten?
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Moralist, Aphoristiker, Offizier, mit seinen aphoristischen Texten gilt er als der älteste der französischen Moralisten, Werke: "Memoires"/1662, "Réflexions ou Sentences et maximes morales" (Frankreich, 1613 - 1680).
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld wäre heute 410 Jahre, 7 Monate, 18 Tage oder 149.980 Tage alt.
Geboren am 15.09.1613 in Paris
Gestorben am 17.03.1680 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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We must not judge of a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
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We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad.
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We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them.
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We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
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We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.
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We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world knew the motives behind them.
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Weakness is more opposite to virtue than is vice itself.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
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What seems to be generously is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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 to arrange.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.