Quotes by : Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of....

Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like....

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

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

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

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange....

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

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.