Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Values
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.
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Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
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A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
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Organize one's values in the order of their worth
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There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
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What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
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A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
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Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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