A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Horace

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

T. S. Eliot

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Horace

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

Marguerite Duras

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Horace

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Marcus Aurelius

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Ricky Gervais

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Juvenal

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Ralph Fiennes

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Margaret Cavendish

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