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
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones. — 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
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — 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
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
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
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
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves. — 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
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to… — 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
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — 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 Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
