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

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Famous Love Quotes, Love Quotes

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free...

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free...

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody...

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody...

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to...

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to...

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel...

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel...

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops...

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops...

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they dont have the slightest interest in...

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they dont have the slightest interest in...