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.

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

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

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

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.