"Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions……" — Francois La Rochefoucauld
"Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities."
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Francois La Rochefoucauld
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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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