If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities. We should also have the management of them.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
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
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
