Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Friends

Quotes about: Friends

• The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Vanity, Littles

• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

• 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

  Love, Friendship, Business

• The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Religious, People

• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

• 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

• The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Failing, Sincerity

• True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

• Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Distrust, Deceived

• Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

• Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Regret, Grief

• The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Heart, Sincerity

• 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

  Friends, Men, Self

• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Self, Judging

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