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From Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
- Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each…
- The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.
- We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
- Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know…
- Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty
- If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength
- The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
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