Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld quotes about
constancy cute-love giving heart itself love perpetual preference sweet-love
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
funny-love hatred judge love resembles usual
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
hatred judge love nearly resembles
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
advice age-and-aging bad console good longer love people themselves
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
faithful love remain struggle undergo
The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
forever lovers talking tired
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
french-writer frequently vices virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
appearance desire natural prevents seem
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
bringing contagious evil example good great
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
advice deceived mistrust shameful
It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
complains judgment-and-judges nobody
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
homage hypocrisy pays vice
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
absence candles diminishes fans great increases passions wind
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
flatterer french-writer greatest
Self-love is the greatest flatterer in the world.