Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Quotes

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What did Francois de La Rochefoucauld say about Love?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld has written many quotes about Love. E.g.,

  • It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
  • Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
  • However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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Here are the top most famous quotes about Love by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

  • It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
  • Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
  • However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
  • In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
  • Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
  • Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
  • True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
  • There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
  • There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
  • It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.