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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.


Note 

Note



Maxim 10


Source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

wikisource - La Rochefoucauld - Maximes et Réflexions morales (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Im menschlichen Herzen entstehen beständig Leidenschaften, das Ende der einen bestimmt fast immer den Anfang einer anderen.

French
Il y a dans le cœur humain une génération perpétuelle de passions, en sorte que la ruine de l’une est presque toujours l’établissement d’une autre.




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Quotes for: passion


Quotes

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.





Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.





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.





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.





To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.











Quotes

Quotes for: generation


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.





An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.





The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.





When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.











Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Few people know how to be old.





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.












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