"Passion very often makes the wisest men..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
More by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”
“Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
More on Passion
“Give all to love; Obey thy heart.”
“This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.”
“What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]”
More on Intellect
“The mind is always the patsy of the heart.”
“Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.”
“To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.”