We promise according to our hopes and perform according to o... - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."