Quotes by : Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs....

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear....

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.....

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.....

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.