It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so infectious as example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld