The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Interpretation
Love can often lead to negative outcomes, resembling hatred more than friendship.
This quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld suggests that if we evaluate love based solely on its effects, we might find that it often leads to feelings akin to hatred rather than fostering friendship. It implies a complex relationship between love and its outcomes, emphasizing that love can provoke strong and sometimes destructive emotions that blur the lines between affection and animosity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the complexities of human emotions during a psychology class.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction.
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.