Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some bad qualities which make great talents. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. — 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
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. — 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 true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — 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
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. — 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
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
