Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Great, Wind

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

Love, True, Everyone

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

Friendship, True, Care

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Forgiveness, Degree, Loves

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

Jealousy, Love, Contains

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, Long, Hide

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

End, Others, Become

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Jealousy, Passion

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Thousand, Imitations

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Everything, Impossible

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her, Mistress, Thinks

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Wisdom, Few

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, May, Enough

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Thought, Find

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, True

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Passion, Makes

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship, Men, Business

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

Hypocrisy, Virtue, Vice

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

Good, Person, Find

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

Jealousy, Doubt, Lives

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Minds, Beyond, Mediocre

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

Love, True, Everyone

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Makes, Blind

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, Sure, Born

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15, 1613

Died: March 17, 1680

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