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
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]