The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

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The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to...

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to...

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...

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame. It's useless to chase it...

Love is a wild bird that no one can tame. It's useless to chase it...

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as...

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as...

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

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...

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

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 sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of...

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of...

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs...

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs...

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

I love you. You dont have to love me back, but Im gonna give you...

I love you. You dont have to love me back, but Im gonna give you...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...