Quote #835
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows...
Category Archives: La Rochefoucauld
Quote #851
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. +4-6...
Quote #867
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than...
Quote #820
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or...
Quote #836
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. +30
Quote #852
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than...
Quote #868
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it,...
Quote #821
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us. +4-2...
Quote #837
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles...
Quote #853
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of...