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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Passion - Page 2

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Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clever, Passion, Men

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

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Reality, Self

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Weakness, Sometimes

The passions often engender their contraries.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Contrary

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fall, Passion, Soul

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Passion, Blow

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Spiritual, Fall, Passion

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fall, Health, Passion

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art, Philosophy, Passion

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Spring, Passion, Heart

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Wisest Man

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Greed, Missing

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Heart, Birth

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Duration, Dependent

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Pride, Envy

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowledge, Passion, Desire

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Eye, Design

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Soul, Remains

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

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Strong, Passion, Ambition

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Desire

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Heart, Men

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Giving

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Blow, Wind

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mistake, Passion, Ambition

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Heart, Mean

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