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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Note 

Note




Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wikisource - La Rochefoucauld - Œuvres (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La confiance que l’on a en soi fait naître la plus grande partie de celle que l’on a aux autres.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

German
Das Vertrauen, das wir in uns selbst haben, bewirkt den größten Teil des Vertrauens, das wir in andere setzen.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Maximen und Reflexionen



See also 

See also...



It often happens that we are respected in proportion as we respect ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

We respect a man who respects himself.
Honore de Balzac - Sur Catherine de Médicis

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
Laozi

No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Seneca - De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem



Quotes for: trust


Quotes

Quotes about trust:


It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus / 





Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 





Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well / 





The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway / 





Confidence raises the soul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






All about trust...




Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections / 





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu / 





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






All about others...




Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






All about oneself...




Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Few people know how to be old.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 







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