Quotes about love
love talking together
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.] Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love romantic i-miss-you
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love inspirational long
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love life sex
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love admiration admire
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love fashion merit
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love deceit mistrust
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love pride two
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love-is infidelity welcome
When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love fall people
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love tire self-love
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love self flatterer
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love two merit
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love inspirational judging
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love love-is pleasure
The pleasure of love is in loving. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love passion joy
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires..... Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love fear fire
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
love forgiveness pardon-me
We pardon to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love hate may
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
love hate wish
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love talking reason
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love ambition return
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love break-up breakup
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
love believe romantic-love
In love we often doubt what we most believe. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love dream passion
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love broken-heart judging
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love friendship business
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
love disappointment hate
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love friendship patience
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love jealousy self
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love-is fever duration
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love-is men self
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love fall passion
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld