What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — 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
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
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — 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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — 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
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you… — 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
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
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. — 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
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. — 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
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. — 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
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — 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 reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. — 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
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — 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
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about. — 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
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us. — 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
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
