We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Love Quotes

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

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

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us...

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us...

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

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

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having...

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having...

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

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

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once...

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once...

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present...

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present...

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second...

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second...

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....

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it...

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it...

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.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish...

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish...

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...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable,...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable,...