Excess Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excess Forbidden Forbidden love Jealousy Kind Kinds of love Love
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. — Joseph Addison 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
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
