Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures,

Summary

This quote suggests that virtuous women are often overlooked and underestimated because their worth is not immediately visible. Like hidden treasures, their true value remains untapped until someone puts in the effort to discover and appreciate it. The quote implies that these women's virtues and qualities go unnoticed because people may not actively seek them out, but once they are discovered, their value and significance become highly appreciated and respected. Additionally, it also highlights the importance of actively recognizing and valuing the virtues of women, rather than dismissing or disregarding them.

Topics

Women

By Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to r

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

Respect

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Value

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And t

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Family

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Fear

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic,

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Romantic

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

William Butler Yeats

Beauty Love Man Fate

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head agains

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

Thankful

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the w

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Charles Kingsley

Feelings

In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the

In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that we imagined everything republican which was not monarchy. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it. Hence, our first constitutions had really no leading principles in them. But experience and reflection have but more and more confirmed me in the particular importance of the equal representation then proposed.

Thomas Jefferson

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything t

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Orison Swett Marden

Great

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because y

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

Bravery