"Passion often makes fools of the wisest..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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“The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.”
“The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.”
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
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“I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.”
“You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.”
“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”
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“Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.”
“A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.”
“Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.”