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
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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?