Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual >>

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a >>

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures o >>

Quotations about Absence

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. >>

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. >>

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffe >>

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De