If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
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. View more images...
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. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
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. View more images...
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. View more images...
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld. View more images...
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld. View more images...