Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.