"Those that have had great passions esteem..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.”
“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
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“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”
“The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.”
“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”