shame - quotes

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

was an US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, and printer

Take it from Richard, poor and lame,
what's begun in anger ends in shame.

( “Poor Richard's Almanack”, 1732 - 1758 )

François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

was a French author and moralist

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.