Quote of François de La Rochefoucauld - What we term virtue is often...
Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:
French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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Quotes about interest:
Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters; even that of disinterestedness.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Quotes about virtue:
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Quotes about action:
François de La Rochefoucauld also said...
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