Diminish Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “As love increases, prudence diminishes.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diminish Increase Intrigue Love Prudence
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress. — Tehyi Hsieh Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
