Quote

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Heart
Relics
Cured
Disturbed
Wholly
Passion
Stills
Still
Take

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Image
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Fortune and humor govern the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Organize one's values in the order of their worth
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
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
Image
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld