Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld