Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Soul, Body

• Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Soul, Sloth

• 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

• Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Soul, Body

• 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

• The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Disease

• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Sight, Bravery

• Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Virtue

• Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Soul, Together

• What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Mind, Quality

• 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

• 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 thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

• It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Soul

• The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Perfect, Soul

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