Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

People love to hate other people.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Malice hath a strong memory.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

Getting up and criticizing the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.