#François de La Rochefoucauld

[philosophybits]

Nearly all of our faults are more forgivable than the means we use to hide them.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[thoughtkick]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[quotefeeling]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfectquote]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfectfeelings]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[perfeqt]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[crucifiedlovers]

No disguise can long hide love where it exists, or simulate it where it does not exist.

François de la Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (trans. A. M. Blackmore, E. H. Blackmore & Francine Giguère)

[derangedrhythms]

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

François de La Rochefoucauld, from ‘Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims’, tr. J.W. Willis Bund & J. Hain Friswell

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1288- No hay disfraz que pueda largo tiempo ocultar el amor donde lo hay, ni fingirlo donde no lo hay.

("Rochefoucauld")

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Dans leur première passion, les femmes aiment leurs amants, dans toutes les autres, elles aiment l'amour.

- François de La Rochefoucauld

[philosophybits]

You are immensely clever if you are able to hide your cleverness.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[thoughtkick]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[ma-pi-ma]

La felicità sta nel gusto e non

nelle cose; si è felici perché si ha

ciò che ci piace, e non perché si ha

ciò che gli altri trovano piacevole.

François de La Rochefoucauld

[monologhidiunamarea]

L’attesa attenua le passioni mediocri e aumenta quelle più grandi.

[thehopefulquotes]

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

François de la Rochefoucauld

[crucifiedlovers]

There are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love mentioned.

François de la Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (trans. A. M. Blackmore, E. H. Blackmore & Francine Giguère)