Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Passion

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, I Miss You, Romantic

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Dream, Passion

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Strength, Success

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Vanity, Sometimes

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  save quote report

• Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Passion, Coquetry

  save quote report

• Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Envy

  save quote report

• 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, Passion, Health

  save quote report

• All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Blood, Degrees

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

• 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

  save quote report

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Desire

  save quote report

• Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  save quote report

You May Also Like:

Jean de la Bruyere

Friedrich Nietzsche

Baltasar Gracian

Madame de La Fayette

Michel de Montaigne

Luc de Clapiers

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe