The medicine increases the disease. [ Virgil ]
As love increases, prudence diminishes. [ Rochefoucauld ]
When love increases, prudence decreases. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [ Juvenal ]
Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [ Seneca ]
He that increaseth knowledge increases sorrow. [ Bible ]
Giving much to the poor increases a man's store. [ Proverb ]
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
While love decreases with age, friendship increases. [ E. P. Day ]
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. [ John Keats, Endymion ]
The criterion of true beauty is that
It increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. [ Greville ]
Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice. [ J. L. Motley ]
Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. [ Proverb ]
The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases. [ Schiller ]
Knowledge directs practice; but yet practice increases knowledge. [ Proverb ]
What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong. [ Richter ]
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. [ Proverb ]
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. [ Ramsay ]
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. [ Goldsmith ]
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. [ Goethe ]
The remedy is worse than the disease (the disorder increases with the remedy).
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. [ Levis ]
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. [ Sterne ]
A woman who writes, commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. [ Alphonse Karr ]
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. [ Johnson ]
Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers,but increases a conflagration. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Contrast increases the splendour of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. [ John Ruskin ]
The more mysterious love is, the more strength it has; the more it is secret, the more it increases; the more hidden, the plainer shown. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
With the possession or certain expectation of good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, so they must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [ Sallust ]
Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. [ Montaigne ]
As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour; but friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadow, till the sun of life sets. [ Herder ]
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]
It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]