A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

Hannah More

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Plutarch

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

Oliver Goldsmith

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Alexander Pope

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.

Andrea Bocelli

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Charles Caleb Colton

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Isaac D'Israeli

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Dexter Filkins

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

Stephen Jeffreys

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.