Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
- There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
- It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
- No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
- A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
- It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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