"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

Explore more quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."