More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."
"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."
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."