1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.