"The head does not know how to..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
More by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.”
“Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.”
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
More on Reason
“If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.”
“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .”
“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.”