The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld