Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Broken Heart, Judging

• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

• A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Thinking

• Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

• We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Affection, Solicitude

• Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Giving, May

• 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

  Real, Lovers, Affection

• The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Winning, People, Affection

• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

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