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
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.