Love is Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

20 Love is quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Rochefoucauld’s sharp observations cut to the core of desire. These 20 maxims expose the self‑interest and virtue tangled in love, making you pause and reconsider familiar feelings.

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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

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Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

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The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

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As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

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Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer…

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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

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The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act…

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Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

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The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the…

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Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to…

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Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the…

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

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

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Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

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