Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
Quote by François De La Rochefoucauld
Topics:
Absence Quotes
,
Fire Quotes
Related Quotes
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if...
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing...
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to...
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish...
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with...
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
