La Rochefoucauld Love Quotes
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Love is the smallest part of gallantry.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
— 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
324. - There is more self-love than love in jealousy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In love, the quickest is always the best cure.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.
— 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
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
321. - We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but 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
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We pardon as long as we love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
— 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
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
— 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
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As love increases, prudence diminishes.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We pardon to the extent that we love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in loving.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be singularly beloved." - Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires ...
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
78. - The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld