Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
More Quotes from Saint Francis de Sales:
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.Saint Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales
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