François de La Rochefoucauld Quote

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


Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)


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

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

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

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