Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

• 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 it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Evil, May

• Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honor, Weakness, Vices

• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Different, Action, Virtue

• If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Doe, Virtue

• To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Insult, Praise, Virtue

• Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hypocrisy, Vices, Virtue

• Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Virtue, Company

• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Credit, Laziness, Virtue

• Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Done, Virtue, Repentance

• 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 wicked that man shall be capable of being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wicked, Vices

• The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue, Interest

• We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue, Despise

• Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Design, Soul

• It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Support, Problem, Virtue

• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

• Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vices, Virtue

• Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Littles, Virtue

• Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Path, Praise, Virtue

• Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reality, Vices, Virtue

• There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Glitter, Virtue, Certain

• The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Medicine, Vices, Poison

• Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sea, Rivers, Self

• The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Self, Names

• However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Enemy

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