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

• 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

• 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

• Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Virtue, Indolence

• Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Christian, Humility, Pride

• It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sake, Virtue, Virtuous

• When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Desire, Virtue

• We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Ethics, Virtue

• There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Virtue, Figures

• Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Light, Sight, Vices

• It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Passion, Ambition

• Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Weakness, Vices, 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

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