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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Giving

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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Advice, Use

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Greatness, Giving, Attention

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Regret, Giving, Secret

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence, Giving, Merit

"Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom, Giving, Advice

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life, People, Giving

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Envy, World

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People, Giving, Knavery

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People, Giving, Calm

"Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Envy, Secret

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity, Generosity, Giving

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Pleasure, Should

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspiration, Giving, Advice

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Giving, Advice

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowing, Giving, Advice

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity, Generosity, Giving

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Advice

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Business, Giving, Advice

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flirting, Giving, Fruit

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love Is, Giving, Faults

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Giving, Expectations

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Opportunity, Men, Giving

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Believe, Pride, Giving

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Advice, Use

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