Quote of François de La Rochefoucauld - If there is a pure love...
Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:
French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.
Note
Maxim 69
Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Translation
(French, German, Italian)
Se c'è un amore puro e incontaminato dalle nostre altre passioni, è nascosto in fondo al cuore, e noi stessi lo ignoriamo.
See also...
Quotes about love:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Quotes about heart:
Quotes about passion:
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
François de La Rochefoucauld also said...
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