Famous Quotes / La Rochefoucauld
14 Quotations by La Rochefoucauld
- 1. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans t ...
- 2. Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fa ...
- 3. All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- 4. Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
- 5. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- 6. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- 7. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them
- 8. One pardons to the degree that one loves.
- 9. People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
- 10. The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse
- 11. The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
- 12. True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world
- 13. We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves
- 14. We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.