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 man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
We pardon as long as we love.
We forgive so long as we love.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
As long as we love, we can forgive.