It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
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. View more images...
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...