06UndatedBefore strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
07UndatedIf we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
08UndatedThe reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
10UndatedEveryone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
11UndatedIf we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
17UndatedWhen our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
19UndatedWe are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
21UndatedOne can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗
22UndatedTrue eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.La Rochefoucauld / quote ↗