Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We never listen when we are eager to speak"

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld