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
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes about
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.