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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
We give nothing so freely as advice.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.