Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. — 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
