Quotes of Rochefoucauld, Francois de La
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. |
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. |
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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. |
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. |
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. |
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. |
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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 little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. |
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. |
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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. |
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