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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes about Love

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

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.

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Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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

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Love, Ignorance, Wells

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

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Love, Dream, Passion

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

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Love, Truth, Fear

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.

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Love, Fall, Passion

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

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

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

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Love, Relationship, Affair

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

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Love, True Love, Cheesy Love

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

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Love, Admiration, Admire

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

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Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

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

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Love, Inspirational, Judging

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

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Love, Passion, Joy

The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]

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Love, Talking, Mistress

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

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Love, Women, Passion

We pardon to the extent that we love.

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Love, Forgiveness, Pardon Me
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 330, 1678.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, People, Heard

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

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

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Love, Fashion, Merit

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

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Love, Men, May

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Deception, Deceit

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

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Love, Broken, Break

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

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Broken Heart, Judging

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