"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Hope
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
- "We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
- "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
More In Hope
- "Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man."― Patti Smith
- "You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self."― Hugh Laurie
- "Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace."― Frank B. Kellogg