"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."
- "Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
- "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
More In Good
- "Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."― Hillary Clinton
- "Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."― Alan Cohen
- "I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary."― Charles Spurgeon