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
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.