Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. 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. It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
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