Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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

• If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Strength, Success

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Dream, Passion

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

• If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Passion, Heart

• 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

• 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 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

• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Women

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Desire

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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