We have a collection of 20 Love quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." (ID 50321)


"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires." (ID 50337)


"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." (ID 50373)


"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations." (ID 50397)


"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love." (ID 50797)


"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." (ID 51004)


"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it." (ID 51035)


"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." (ID 51111)


"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not." (ID 51115)


"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love." (ID 51128)


"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe." (ID 51146)


"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." (ID 51165)


"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire." (ID 51170)


"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish." (ID 51172)


"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do." (ID 51178)


"We pardon to the extent that we love." (ID 51179)


"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being." (ID 51180)


"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one." (ID 51254)


"In love we often doubt what we most believe." (ID 51255)


"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection." (ID 51256)


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