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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men