Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mean Quotations

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.