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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.”
“Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.”
“Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.”
“The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.”
“There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.”
“There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.”
“A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.”
“Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.”
“No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.”
“Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.”
“Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.”
“We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.”
“It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.”
“Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.”
“Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.”