In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 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
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 some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are… — Francois 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
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. — 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
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
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — 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
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. — 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
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 Image
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
