Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Weakness
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Weak people cannot be sincere.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
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None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
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Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
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Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author