Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

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.