Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.
Weitere Zitate von Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Zum Autor"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
"It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them."
"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
"Hope is the last thing that dies in man."
"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."