Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

• If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Inspiring, Failure

• It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Men, Age

• Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Pay, Pleasure

• If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Should Have, Flattery, Pleasure

• Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Pleasure

• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Time

• The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Pleasure, Should

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