Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Passion
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Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
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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.
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We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
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Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
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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.
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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
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The passions often engender their contraries.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
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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.
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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.
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The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
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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.
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We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
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In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
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In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
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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.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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