Love Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always like those who admire us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

— 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

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one…

— 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

We pardon to the extent that we love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon as long as we love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give nothing so freely as advice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld