French - Writer | September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680
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
LifeLoveFearHopeFireYou
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
UsCannotAnnoyThosePardonOften
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
ManChanceJudgeTrueReasonTaste
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
GoodPeopleGood ThingsNewNothing
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
LongFirstOfferSecondMadeLover
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
SometimesOthersDifferentOurselves
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
MenStrongEnoughBearMisfortunes
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
LoveMenAmbitionBackPassCome
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
WomenNobodyHiddenSafeTreasures
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
FriendshipLoveHappinessKnowledge
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
WorkNatureAloneHeroSheFortune
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
LoveHeartFreeKnowHiddenPure
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