Quotes from Francois La Rochefoucauld

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.

The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others are often the cause of that courage so renowned among men

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear

Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you all together.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love is our first.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love