A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Karl Marx

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Baruch Spinoza

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

David A. Bednar

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Martin Seligman

The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

Louise Hart

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Thomas Merton

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

Andre Gide

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

E. M. Forster

One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

William Stanley Jevons

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Thomas Carlyle

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

Alan Wilson

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

Louise Colet

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

Jamais Cascio

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.