François de La Rochefoucauld: Quotes about love (page 2)

François de La Rochefoucauld was French author of maxims and memoirs. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”

De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

Il n'y a qu'une sorte d'amour, mais il y en a mille différentes copies.
Maxim 74.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.”

Ce que les hommes ont nommé amitié n'est qu'une société, qu'un ménagement réciproque d'intérêts, et qu'un échange de bons offices; ce n'est enfin qu'un commerce où l'amour-propre se propose toujours quelque chose à gagner.
Maxim 83.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about.”

Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims

“In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.”

Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour.
Maxim 471. Compare: "In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love", Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 3.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.”

Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés, quand ils ne s'aiment plus.
Variant translation: There are very few people who are not ashamed to have loved when they no longer do.
Maxim 71.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)