Francois De La Rochefoucauld ( 10 of 53 )
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him
A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to read more
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have read more
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
