"Neither love nor fire can subsist without..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
More by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.”
“Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.”
“What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.”
More on Love
“I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.”
“How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?”
“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”
More on Emotion
“Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.”
“Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.”
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”