"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.












In love we often doubt what we most believe.
More François de La Rochefoucauld quotes
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being...
"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
"True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.
"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
"True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.
"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
"We forgive so long as we love.