Desire Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Reason Wish
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are… — Anonymous 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
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck 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
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
