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Love Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you all together.
- Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
- The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
- The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others are…
- The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.
- We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
- Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one,…
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
- If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
- If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
- The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
- Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it
- Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.
- The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire
- In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.
- In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
- Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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