“There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.”
“As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.”
“Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.”
“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.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”
“If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.”
“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
Source: Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”
“The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.”
“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
“For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.”