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Passions Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
- No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer…
- In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
- The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
- We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
- The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
- All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
- Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried…
- L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great…
- The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the…
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
- In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
- The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
- If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of…
- In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
- Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments…
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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