Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on jealousy
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on jealousy
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on jealousy
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on knowledge
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on love