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
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.