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 more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.