love quotes

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“ In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

“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.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We pardon to the extent that we love.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld