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
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
We forgive so long as we love.
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.