Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, UberQuotes

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld