We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some bad qualities which make great talents. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
