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
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.