François de La Rochefoucauld

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I have observed men long enough to know that virtue and self-interest are rarely far apart. I write what I see.

·1665·Paris, France

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

·1665·Paris, France

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

·1665·Paris, France

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

·1665·Paris, France

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.