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
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.