"Passion often renders the most clever man..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”

“Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.”

“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”

“Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.”

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”