Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Love
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Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We pardon as long as we love.
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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
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Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
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There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
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Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
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In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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.
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As long as we love, we can forgive.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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