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 fools are greater fools than young ones.
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
The older a fool is, the worse he is.
A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.