Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Love Quotes, Sweet Love Quotes

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is...

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is...

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs...

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs...

The only thing constant in life is change.

The only thing constant in life is change.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being...

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being...

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

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

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so...

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so...

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to...

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to...

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of...

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of...

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good,...

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good,...

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always...

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always...

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came...

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came...

The fact that the man is not alone, that he is solitary to the entire...

The fact that the man is not alone, that he is solitary to the entire...