None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)

François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence.

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence.

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence.

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence.