"Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse;……" — 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"
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Francois La Rochefoucauld
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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad…
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More Cannot Subsist Quotes
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that…
— John Winthrop
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality…
— Unknown Author
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Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
— Umar
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions,…
— Joseph Addison
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
— Ezra Stiles
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It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in…
— Samuel Adams
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
— Samuel Johnson
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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
— Daniel Webster
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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