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

• The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Emotional, Feelings

• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

• Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Violent

• Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Women, Passion

• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

• In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Lovers

• Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Unfortunate, Esteem

• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 572-73, Maxims. No. 9, 1922.

• Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

  "Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

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