"We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Topic(s):
Patience
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
- "When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."
- "Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
More In Patience
- "When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay."― Libby Houston
- "The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live."― Bernard de Mandeville
- "Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."― Ambrose Bierce