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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
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.