“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.” — François 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
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. — 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
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves;… — 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
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
