Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves. — Francois 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
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. — 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
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. — 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
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois 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
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
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — 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
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
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — 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
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie. — 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
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — 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
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — 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
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
