Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.