A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Betray Great Great Ones Harder Much Others People Small Than Us Ways

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

Theresa Rebeck

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Michael Moorcock

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Sandro Veronesi

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

John Wooden

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I can't betray anyone. I don't know what it's like to really betray someone. I'm very loyal to my circle, my family, and those I hold close to me.

Anuel AA

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Cao Cao

It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

Prince Ea

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

Barbara De Angelis

There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

Janet Morris

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

John Fowles

Do not betray the people.

Muqtada al Sadr

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.