It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld