Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. >>

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. >>

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. >>

Quotations about Promotion

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent >>

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry. >>

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of >>

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De