Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Luck Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to...

The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to...

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel...

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel...

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to...

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to...

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass...

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass...

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the...

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the...

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we...

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we...

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they...

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they...

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.

Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

The pleasure of love is in loving.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we...

The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we...

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle,...

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle,...

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...