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
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.