Quote of Jean de La Fontaine - Man is so made that when...
Biography - Jean de La Fontaine:
French poet.
Born: 1621 - Died: 1695
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1621 - Died: 1695
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Translation
(French)
See also...
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.
Quotes for: impossible
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Jean de La Fontaine also said...
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