It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Love Quotes

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love is our...

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love is our...

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,...

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than...

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than...

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be...

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be...

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

Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.

Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we...

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome...

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking...

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking...

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing...

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing...

True courage is completing the things you say while cowardice is just saying the things...

True courage is completing the things you say while cowardice is just saying the things...