There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

• 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.