François de La Rochefoucauld - Hope Quotes

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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

François de La Rochefoucauld

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hope and fear go arm in arm: there is no fear without hope, no hope without fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

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Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

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