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

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  In love we often doubt what we most believe.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all th

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness