Quote of François de La Rochefoucauld - We have more strength than will...
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
We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
Note
Maxim 30
Source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about strength:
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Quotes about will:
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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.
François de La Rochefoucauld also said...
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