Friendship Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld