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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Passion

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The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Oratory

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 8, 1678.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Veils, May

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Dream, Passion

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Thinking

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Emotional, Feelings

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Virtue, Indolence

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Fall, Passion

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Wisest Man

"Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

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 ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Fire, Wind

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Heart, Disturbed

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Blood, Degrees

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 580-81, Premier Supplement, VIII, 1922.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Passion, Joy

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 and passions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Design, Events

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Women, Passion

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Lovers

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 out through these covers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Honor, Peers

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Passion, Doubt

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Design, Soul

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Vanity, Sometimes

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 simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art, Passion, Men

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 572-73, Maxims. No. 9, 1922.

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Violent

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Envy

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Age, Youth

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clever, Passion, Men

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clever, Passion, Men

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

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