Quotes by '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...

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gratitude
hope
mankind
merely
french-writer
hard
women
useful
man
advice
age-and-aging
bad
console
fond
good
inability
men
themselves
again
love
pass
seldom
faults
noticing
easier
intelligence-and-intellectuals
proportion
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