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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: 11

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.