We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles.
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims 19
Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles.
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims 19
What it means
La Rochefoucauld skewers how easily we preach patience to others. Calm about someone else's pain costs nothing. Measure your wisdom by how you handle your own trouble.
The source
"We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles." La Rochefoucauld said it in Maxims 19. Translated from the original French by Spartan Surfers.
"Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui."Original French, Maxims 19. Text read at gutenberg.org.
Who said it
La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680). French duke and soldier who turned his disappointment with court life into some five hundred razor-sharp maxims about self-love.
Questions
- What does "We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles." mean?
- La Rochefoucauld skewers how easily we preach patience to others. Calm about someone else's pain costs nothing. Measure your wisdom by how you handle your own trouble.
- Who said "We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles."?
- La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680). Source: Maxims 19.
- What is the original French?
- Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui. Translated from the original French by Spartan Surfers.
- Is "We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles." on a shirt?
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Cite this line
"We all have strength enough to bear other people's troubles." (La Rochefoucauld, Maxims 19, translated by Spartan Surfers). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/we-all-have-strength-enough-to-bear-other
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More from La Rochefoucauld
- You can't stare at the sun, or at death.Maxims 26
- Everyone complains of their memory. No one of their judgment.Maxims 89
- Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.Maxims 218
- Absence kills small passions and feeds great ones, like wind on candles and fire.Maxims 276
- True courage is doing unseen what you'd do in front of everyone.Maxims 216
- We have more strength than will.Maxims 30