More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."