We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism.
We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be […]
We may give advice, but we can’t inspire conduct.
