Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship
Love
Consequences
Hatred
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship
Happiness
Love
Knowledge
Ignorance
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Faults
Pleasure
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
Age
Love
Man
Old
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Strength
Weakness
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
May
Wishes
World
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Jealousy
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Change
Jealousy
Madness
Passion
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Jealousy
Self
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery
Harm
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
Mind
Weakness
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude
Hope
Favors
Mankind
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart
Being
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friends
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Guilt
Innocence
Protection