Quotes by : Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom....

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.....

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans....

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

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