Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld


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