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
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
The pleasure of love is in loving.
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.