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.
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.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.