François de La Rochefoucauld - Love Quotes

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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Some have a species of instinct (the source of which they are ignorant of), and decide all questions that come before them by its aid, and always decide rightly. These follow their taste more than their intelligence, because they do not permit their temper and self-love to prevail over their natural discernment. All they do is in harmony, all is in the same spirit. This harmony makes them decide correctly on matters, and form a correct estimate of their value.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

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Temperance is the love of health — or the inability to eat or drink much.

François de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

François de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.

François de La Rochefoucauld