Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

• There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Kind, Imitation

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 74, 1978.

• 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 Love, Cheesy Love

• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Admiration, Admire

• There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Break Up, Breakup

• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

• 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, Inspirational, Long

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

• One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Relationship, Affair

• Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fall, Passion

• In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Ignorance, Wells

• For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Truth, Fear

• The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Love Is, Romance

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 259, 1678.

• The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Joy

• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

• What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Tire, Self Love

• The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Flirty, Flirting

  "Maxims" by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, (No. 359), 1665-1678.

• If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Inspirational, Judging

• There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Two, Merit

• We pardon as long as we love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Forgiveness, Long

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

• When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

• Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Self

• In love we often doubt what we most believe.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Believe, Romantic Love

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.187

• 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

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