Antoine François Prévost Quotes

Rien n'est plus capable d'inspirer du courage à une femme que l'intrépidité d'un homme qu'elle aime.

How many deserters there are from the rigours of virtue, how few from the cause of love!

One cannot reflect for long on moral precepts without being astonished at seeing them, at one and the same time, revered and neglected, and without wondering what could be the reason for this vagary of the human heart, whereby it clings to principles of goodness and perfection from which it deviates in practice.

Crois-tu qu'on puisse être bien tendre lorsqu'on manque de pain?

Rien n'est plus admirable et ne fait plus d'honneur à la vertu, que la confiance avec laquelle on s'adresse aux personnes dont on connaît parfaitement la probité.

Only experience or example can rationally determine which way the heart should incline. Now experience is not an advantage that it is open to everyone to acquire, since it depends on the various situations in which, by chance, we find ourselves. For many people, then, this leaves only example that can offer any guidance as to how they should exercise virtue.

C'est un fonds excellent de revenu pour les petits, que la sottise des riches et des grands.

A father's heart is nature's finest work.

Il faut compter ses richesses par les moyens qu'on a de satisfaire ses désirs.

We should measure our wealth according to the means we have of satisfying our desires.