The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. — 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
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. — 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
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. — 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
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones. — 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
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves;… — 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
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
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
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
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
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
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
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
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share
