Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Doubt, Madness

• 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

• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

• In love we often doubt what we most believe.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Believe, Romantic Love

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.187

• When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Doubt

• It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Journey, Doubt, Vices

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