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
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.