The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 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
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — 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
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. — 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
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with 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 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
