More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"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."
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."