Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Quotes

• “What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of servic...”
• “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
• “In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
• “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
• “Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
• “If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
• “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
• “There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
• “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
• “When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”
• “Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”