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
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.