Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillacla ʁɔʃfuˈko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 September 1613
CountryFrance
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
Few know how to be old.
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.