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 we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Only great men have great faults.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.