In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.” — François La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
